To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are.

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.