"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."
"You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope."
"You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace."
"It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems."
"Smile, breathe, and go slowly."
"There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way."
"May our hearts garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers."
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don�t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."
"By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future."
"The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart."
"If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything."
"New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays."
"We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives."
"Look deeply at your anger, as you would look at your own child. Don’t reject it or hate it. The point of meditation is not to turn yourself into a battlefield, one side opposing the other. Conscious breathing soothes and calms the anger, and mindfulness penetrates it. Anger is just an energy, and all energies can be transformed. Meditation is the art of using one kind of energy to transform another."
"Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it."
"The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous."
"Understanding is the other name of love. If you don’t understand, you can’t love."
"Compassion is a verb."
"So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person."
"We tend to think of nourishment only as what we take in through our mouths, but what we consume with our eyes, our ears, our noses, our tongues, and our bodies is also food. The conversations going on around us, and those we participate in, are also food. Are we consuming and creating the kind of food that is healthy for us and helps us grow?"
"When we're inspired by the desire to practice and transform our suffering, the mind of the moment is very beautiful. Sometimes we call it the mind of love. It's because of love that we practice."
"Suffering has many faces. If we discover the roots of one suffering, we are at the same time discovering the roots of others."
"When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own."
"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive."