Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.