Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.

One included all, and all were contained in one.

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.