Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

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

First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle.

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.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.