There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

When we speak, we want to say something sweet, but we don't say something sweet because something is ordering us from deep down to say something unkind. We want to open our hearts to people, but we can't do it, because we are being ordered around by the sufferings we have concealed deep in our consciousness.

Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!"

You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.