Find joy and peace in this very moment.

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

Recently, one friend asked me, "How can I force myself to smile when I am filled with sorrow? It isn't natural." I told her she must be able to smile to her sorrow, because we are more than our sorrow. A human being is like a television set with millions of channels. If we turn the Buddha on, we are the Buddha. If we turn sorrow on then we are sorrow. If we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. We can not let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to seize the situation in our hand, to recover our own sovereignty.

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Life is only available in the present moment.

I am you and you are me; it is obvious we inter-are.