Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are, therefore I am. That is the meaning of the word "interbeing." We interare.

When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible.

We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.