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

In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.

Dealing with our overweight - or with any of our life's difficulties, for that matter - is not a battle to be fought. Instead, we must learn how to make friends with our hardships and challenges. They are there to help us; they are natural opportunities for deeper understanding and transformation, brining us more joy and peace as we learn to work with them.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.