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

Earth will be safe when we feel in us enough safety.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world.

Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief. And if you continue with your practice of mindfulness, you understand the roots, the nature of the suffering, and you know the way to transform it.

To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.

When you have a toothache, you think that not having a toothache will make you very happy. But when you don't have a toothache, often you are still not happy. If you practice awareness, you suddenly become very rich, very very happy.