At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.

If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.

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

Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.

We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it. We are the light at the tip of the candle. It is really hot, but it has the power of shining and illuminating. If we practice mindfulness, we will know how to look deeply into the nature of war and, with our insight, wake people up so that together we can avoid repeating the same horrors again and again.

The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.

Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.