The Art of Living: mindful techniques for peaceful living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders

When human beings first developed the capacity to walk and run it was either to chase after something or to escape something. That energy of chasing and running is deeply ingrained in every cell of our body.

The key elements in a beloved community are love, trust, joy, harmony, and brotherhood and sisterhood.

Each one of us has to be our true self: fresh, solid, at ease, loving, and compassionate. When we are our true selves, not only do we benefit, but everyone around us profits from our presence.

Body and mind depend on each other in order to exist.

Sometimes someone else’s suffering can make you feel powerless. It may seem like there is nothing you can do to help them. But in fact, if you can generate and sustain an energy of calm and embrace your own feeling of powerlessness—by following your breathing and relaxing your body—you are taking care of the energy of your tree. Offering a high qua

If you can get in touch with the elements of peace and freshness within you and around you, both body and mind will benefit, and it will help you embrace the difficulties and pain in your body.

To practice aimlessness is to identify what it is you’re looking for, waiting for, or running after, and let it go.

As you recognize, embrace, and transform your anger, fear, and despair, you start to experience nirvana.

It is impossible for H2O to pass from something into nothing, from being into nonbeing.