Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.

Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.

We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now.

Happiness is not an individual matter.