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

Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation

Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into nonbeing. And that is true with a beloved person. They have not died. They have continued in many new forms and you can look deeply and recognize them in you and around you.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.