I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.

Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

A still tongue keeps a wise head.

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.