Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

There may be a time when a country will have to wake up from a vision of happiness, when they have to realize that theirs is not the perfect idea, that there are many aspects that do not correspond to the reality of what is there, the real need and aspirations of the people.

Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.

At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath

A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.

While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.

Happiness and suffering support each other. To be is to inter-be. It's like the left and the right. If the left is not there, the right cannot be there. The same is true with suffering and happiness, good and evil.