Happiness is not an individual matter.

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world.

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

Before you do something to help, your presence already can bring some relief.