A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which create happiness in the present moment. By nourishing awareness in the present moment, you can avoid causing suffering to yourself and those around you. The way you look at others, your smile, and your small acts of caring can create happiness. True happiness does not depend on wealth or fame.

To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.