When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.

Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.

Every moment is a moment of happiness.

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

I am you and you are me; it is obvious we inter-are.