When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation.

I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

The war is in our souls.

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.