When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.

We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

You are not an observer, you are a participant.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.