Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

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

The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now.

By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.