They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.