Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.

"I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.

Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.