You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has the capacity to nourish us. By the work of mindful observation, our unpleasant feelings can illuminate so much for us, offering us insight and understanding into ourselves and society.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war, you don't know the value of peace. That is why we should not try to run away from one thing after another thing. Holding our suffering, looking deeply into it, we find a way to happiness.

I am you and you are me; it is obvious we inter-are.