Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.

How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).

We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.