Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it’s wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy.

When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion.

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

Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration.