Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.

If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

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

Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.

When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere.

What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.