Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy.

The farther you enter into truth, the deeper it is.

Every being has the potential of becoming a Buddha. Our true nature is Buddha nature.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Anxiety and excitement are the same emotion. The only difference is our attitude toward the experience.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

The way to overcome anger is to be too busy being kind to have time to be angry.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

Where there is great doubt, there is great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

In meditation, we're not trying to get rid of thoughts but to recognize their true nature.

Change is the nature of every phenomenon. Accept this truth and you will live a happy life.

Our own life has to be our message.

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here. Live in the present moment with awareness.

Don't expect or desire anything. Just keep noting whatever arises in the present moment.

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

The great gift of meditation is that it returns us to the simplicity of our own being.

Just to be alive is enough.

Sticking with uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.

Karma is not fate but the law of moral causation, showing us that we are the architects of our own destiny.

The world is its own magic.

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense.