Where is the place that your original face has not yet emerged?

Each of you is perfect the way you are... and you can use a little improvement.

For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible. For whom emptiness is not possible, nothing is possible.

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

Meditation is not an escape from reality but a way to understand reality as it truly is.

The Buddha's teachings are not a religion, but a science of mind.

The eye with which I see Buddha is the same eye with which Buddha sees me.

The only way to experience truth is to look within, to observe oneself.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Your mind is like a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.

The highest mantra is to be without deception. The highest medicine is to have few desires. The highest meditation is not to be attached.

Mindfulness is the gentle effort to be continuously present with experience.

Many people think excitement is happiness... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

The truth of suffering is not to be feared but to be understood through direct observation.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

Although all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, they function perfectly well.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Through continuous mindfulness practice, the true nature of physical and mental phenomena becomes clear.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

Change is possible because there is nothing inherently permanent about our disturbing emotions.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

When we know the truth, we become people who don't have to think much, we become people with wisdom.

The practice of mindfulness transforms the mind from a place of suffering into an instrument of enlightenment.

The one who grasps at existence suffers in samsara, while the one who grasps at non-existence will find no liberation.

The view is like a lion - it cannot be led around by anything else. Meditation is like an eagle - it cannot be distracted by anything else. Action is like a madman - it is free from accepting and rejecting.

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

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Even if you speak of 'understanding,' this understanding is not a matter of knowledge. It is what fills the entire body and mind.

The essence of the spiritual journey is the uncovering of what is always already present.

To live – is that not enough? To love – is that not everything?

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.