First of all, you need to know that an emotion is only that — an emotion — even though it may be a big, strong one. You are so much bigger, so much m… - Thích Nhất Hạnh

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

I will practice coming back to the present moment...not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out...