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

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.

When you love someone, the best you can offer is your presence.

We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive.

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.