When you take a step, if you can enjoy that step, if your step can bring you more stability and freedom,then you are serving the world.

It is not about "doing" something, it's about "being" something-being peace, being hope, being solid-every action will come out of that, because peace, stability, and freedom always seek a way to express themselves in action.

Understanding suffering is the prerequisite to ending it. In order to understand suffering you have to practice deep, compassionate listening.

Appropriate political and social solutions can only arise when suffering is acknowledged and understood.

Ifyou do not knowhowto take care of your fear, anger, and despair, if you do not know how to calm yourself, how can you negotiate peace?

we can do things every day, in every moment of our daily life to nourish the seeds of peace, compassion, andunderstanding in us and in those around us.

Don't let your desire be small, it should be very great. If it is not a great desire you will be pulled away by many smaller desires.

Right Understanding involves understanding suffering and seeing what governments could do to make social justice, mutual respect, and tolerance a reality.

When you already have the energy of mindfulness in you born from your daily practice, you have enough calm and insight to recognize, embrace, look deeply at, and understand your suffering.