If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.
May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.
My actions are my only true belongings.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.
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.
I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now.
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.