Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.

When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away.

At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point.

We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.

Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.

There are so many things that can provide us with peace. Next time you take a shower or a bath, I suggest you hold your big toes in mindfulness. We pay attention to everything except our toes. When we hold our toes in mindfulness and smile at them, we will find that our bodies have been very kind to us. We know that any cell in our toes can turn cancerous, but our toes have been behaving very well, avoiding that kind of problem. Yet, we have not been nice to them at all. These kinds of practices can bring us happiness.

But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.