Suppose you are drinking a cup of tea. When you hold your cup, you may like to breathe in, to bring your mind back to your body, and you become fully present. And when you are truly there, something else is also there - life, represented by the cup of tea. In that moment you are real, and the cup of tea is real. You are not lost in the past, in the future, in your projects, in your worries. You are free from all of these afflictions. And in that state of being free, you enjoy your tea. That is the moment of happiness, and of peace.

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

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

The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.

Are we treating our body kindly by the way we eat, by the way we drink, by the way we work? Are we treating ourselves with enough joy and tenderness and peace? Or are we feeding ourselves with toxins that we get from the market - the spiritual, intellectual, entertainment market?