Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.

With negative energy you can make the positive energy. A flower will become compost someday, but if you know how to transform the compost back into the flower, then you don't have to worry. You don't have to worry about your anger because you know how to handle it - to embrace, to recognize, and to transform it. So this is what is possible.