The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom.

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are.

In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power of concentration, bringing forth deep insight and awakening. Mindfulness is the base of Buddhist practice

You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into a positive energy that empowers you and makes life meaningful.

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.