The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Find joy and peace in this very moment.

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.

If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A pessimistic attitude can never create the calm and serene smile which blossoms on the lips of Bodhisattvas and all those who obtain the way.