All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding to violence with violence resolves nothing; it only escalates violence, anger and hatred. It is only with compassion that we can embrace and disintegrate violence. This is true in relationships between individuals as well as in relationships between nations.

When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation.

I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are, therefore I am. That is the meaning of the word "interbeing." We interare.

To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.