The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.
Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.
Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos.
Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.
There’s no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.
We need to move beyond the idea of ‘environment’ and fall back in love with Mother Earth.
To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist.
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.
We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river.
I vow to live fully in each moment.
We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.
The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.
We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.
When you have a toothache, you think that not having a toothache will make you very happy. But when you don’t have a toothache, often you are still not happy. If you practice awareness, you suddenly become very rich, very very happy.
Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don’t have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the still water of our heart.
Often we tell ourselves, “Don’t just sit there, do something!” But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: “Don’t just do something, sit there!”
One included all, and all were contained in one.
Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.
The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation is in the way we handle this very moment.