It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.

In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

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