Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.

When mindfulness becomes continuous, the distinction between the observer and the observed begins to break down.

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.

The snow lion stays in the mountains, and the snow lion's ways are the snow lion's ways.

We need to learn to let our emotions pass through us like waves, without getting caught in their undertow.

Mindfulness is not just bare attention but wise attention that leads to understanding and insight.

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.

The more precisely you note, the more clearly you understand. The more clearly you understand, the stronger your insight becomes.

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

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

Every sensation shares the same characteristic - arising, passing. Arising, passing. Learn to observe objectively.

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

In true vipassana practice, there is no room for likes and dislikes. There is only observation.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

Not by hatred is hatred conquered, but by love alone. This is an eternal law.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

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

The yogi's joy is in the solitude of mountains, where all distractions naturally dissolve into emptiness.

Meditation is not about achieving anything. It's about letting go of everything.

The path of practice requires both faith and wisdom, both devotion and understanding.

The purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.

The archer ceases to be conscious of himself as the one who is engaged in hitting the bull's-eye which confronts him. This state of unconsciousness is realized only when, completely empty and rid of the self, he becomes one with the perfecting of his technical skill.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

The cave I live in is empty and so is my mind. I live simply and at ease.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Compassion is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.

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