Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so. He said that all beings had the potential to become awakened. To practice walking meditation is to practice living in mindfulness. Mindfulness and enlightenment are one. Enlightenment leads to mindfulness and mindfulness leads to enlightenment.

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

When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere.

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.

We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.