Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

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

When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in.

If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen.

Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities.

Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.

If you rise with a positive attitude - because everything is possible, everything is doable - if you have that level of confidence, you exude it. It actually inspires the people around you.