Please tell me all your suffering, all your pain. I am here, really listening.” And if you know how to go back to her, to him, and listen like that every day for five or ten minutes, healing will take place. When you climb a beautiful mountain, invite your little child within to climb with you. When you contemplate the beautiful sunset, invite him

You will say and do mean and cruel things when you believe that you are the only one who suffers and that the other person does not suffer at all.

If you know this, then when it rains you won’t be desperate. You know that the rain is there, but the sunshine is still there somewhere. Soon the rain will stop, and the sun will shine again. Have hope.

You only need to recognize that anger is a negative energy and that mindfulness is a positive one.

Mindfulness contains the energy of concentration, understanding, and compassion.

What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote for anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion.

We have to take very good care of our body if we want to master our anger. The way we eat, the way we consume, is very important.

Your capacity for loving another person depends entirely on your capacity for loving yourself, for taking care of yourself.

Every mental formation—anger, jealousy, despair, etc.—is sensitive to mindfulness the way all vegetation is sensitive to sunshine.