Mindfulness is the key to transformation. It enables us to see our experience as it really is, free from distortion and bias.

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

The first step toward faith is to admit that we don't know everything.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

Those who know emptiness, know impermanence. Those who know impermanence, know non-self. Those who know non-self, know peace.

Liberation is found in the practice, not in the theory.

People who study a lot but don't practice are like a ladle in a soup pot. It's in the soup every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

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

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time.

The practice of mindfulness is simply to bring awareness to what we are doing, what we are saying, and what we are thinking.

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

Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, just as ice and water are of the same substance.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy, and happiness is found in benefiting others.

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.

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.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

The real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.