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

Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance.

As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing.

Dealing with our overweight - or with any of our life's difficulties, for that matter - is not a battle to be fought. Instead, we must learn how to make friends with our hardships and challenges. They are there to help us; they are natural opportunities for deeper understanding and transformation, brining us more joy and peace as we learn to work with them.

Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.

When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.