If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if you are not really there - thinking about the future or the past, or preoccupied with other problems - then the child is not really there for you. The technique of being alive is to go back to yourself in order for the child to appear like a marvellous reality. Then you can see him smile and you can embrace him in your arms.

Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.