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

Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!

If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go. Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation.

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.