Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.

It is possible to live happily in the here and 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.

I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.