Panic, anxiety, and stress are not obstacles to the practice. They are the path to wisdom and compassion.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as your capacity to ground your attention in the present moment.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

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.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

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

All that appears and exists, all of samsara and nirvana, has one ground, two paths, and two results. This is the magical display of awareness and unawareness.

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

The world is its own magic.

The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind.

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

Dependent origination is not a theory about the origin of the world but a teaching that shows how suffering originates in dependence on our own mental processes.

The movement of love is what creates the beauty in our lives.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

Real freedom is not about controlling our experience, but about being free within our experience.

The lamp of wisdom burns constantly, illuminating the nature of mind.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

The key to the Buddha's teaching is not grasping, not trying to hold onto things that are essentially impermanent and unstable.

Love is the wish that others be happy, and compassion is the wish that they be free from suffering.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Everybody has the light of Buddha within, but they don't look for it.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity for accepting and having compassion for them is there.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

Face your own anger and you will be free from anger. Face your own fears and you will be free from fear.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.

Meditation is not about escaping from difficulty but about meeting it with awareness.

The greatest obstacle to meditation is our expectation about what it should be.

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

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.