Sweetness isn't just experienced through our five senses. It can be experienced by our mind (thoughts) and our feelings (emotions).

Suffering is a mental habit which eases or ceases when we accept – bear, hold up, carry, allow – what life has presented us with and begin to work with the aspects of the situation that are within our control.

There are all sorts of garden soils and all sorts of family soils. Families are all imperfect in their own way. Ask yourself, What sort of soil are you being right now?

The sun shines on everything in its path. No judging, withholding or discriminating. When we are sunshine, we’re like the sun. The good that we do goes on and on and on.

You are a part of nature. Your life is seasonal. You are an eternal, unstoppable flow.

Seeds are a reminder that everything starts small and that we already have all that we need.

Importance and insignificance are two sides of the same coin of myself. Live consciously so I do the least harm but in the context of eternity, my life is brief.

When we sit with Grief, a door to consciousness will open and we will glimpse or feel something intangible and eternal. And be comforted.

Eckhart Tolle says our primary purpose is: "To be a vehicle for consciousness to come into this world."

Being present is a calm space paradoxically filled with energy. It’s suffused with a normally elusive sense of abiding peace and joy.

Flying by the seat of my pants means to instinctively respond to what is happening, to figure out what to do as things unfold.

To perform an act of sacrifice, we don't lose something, we give something. Sacrifice isn't giving up something; it is simply giving.

Stoics say that what's in the way is the way, There's no such thing as an obstacle.

Find the gold – something precious, something illuminating, something with an eternal glow about it – in every moment, every situation.

Breathing deeply brings awareness to your body, to this moment. Doing this calms your mind. Try it!

My garden is a process. My life is a process. Other people's lives are a process. Life is a perfect, messy process.

The core of sacredness is recognising the soul in each other. (Translation by Coleman Barks of Shams Tabriz, the close friend of Rumi.)

The ordinary becomes extraordinary when you pay attention. There are no ordinary flowers, a boring cloud, or an uninteresting right hand.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. (Einstein). Miracles are everywhere in everyday life.

Patience is presence. You can't run out of patience. Impatience is a form of madness.