We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.

While washing dishes one should be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing dishes.

Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself