Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

Tolerance and tranquility are two characteristics of true love.

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?

The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.

"I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.