In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

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

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.

Logic only tells us what's there

For we must share if we would keep that blessing from above Ceasing to give we cease to have such is the law of love.

And like lambs to a slaughter we shall follow.

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

There is really only one Zen Master ... and that's yourself.

I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.