To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath

The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you to attain understanding. Thanks to right concentration, you realize right awareness, thoughts, speech, action, livelihood and effort. The understanding which develops can liberate you from every shackle of suffering and give birth to true peace and joy.

By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

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