We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow. You cannot separate lotus flowers from the mud. It is the same with understanding and love. These are two kinds of flowers that grow on the ground of suffering

Live in such a way that you embody true peace, that you can be peace in every moment of your daily life. It is possible for everyone to generate the energy of peace in every step.

My actions are my only true belongings.

The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.