Only the present moment contains life.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.

Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

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

Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation