In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

Your true home is in the here and the now.

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

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden and they abandon their values.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

Smile, breathe, go slowly.