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

We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

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.

Recently, one friend asked me, "How can I force myself to smile when I am filled with sorrow? It isn't natural." I told her she must be able to smile to her sorrow, because we are more than our sorrow. A human being is like a television set with millions of channels. If we turn the Buddha on, we are the Buddha. If we turn sorrow on then we are sorrow. If we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. We can not let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to seize the situation in our hand, to recover our own sovereignty.

The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.