Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

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

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

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?

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.