“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Be part of the miraculous moment.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

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.

Only the present moment contains life.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.

The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.

Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.

Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.