You need to eat well, sleep well, and have a roof over your head, but don’t go much further than that before extending yourself to others.

When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

If you see life as an opportunity, or if you see helping others as an opportunity, then all of a sudden you become joyous. You want to go forward.

People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.

In meditation we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing.

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.