In my youth I studied, in my prime I practiced, now all my doubts are cleared.

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

The true path is not difficult; just avoid picking and choosing.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Each moment of noting is a moment of purification, a moment of cultivating the path.

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

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

The quality of every moment depends on the state of our minds.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The mind is the source of all happiness and the source of all suffering.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

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.

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the "support," of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

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

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

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

The more we understand the nature of our mind, the more we understand the nature of our world.

May all beings be happy, be peaceful, be liberated.

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.

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

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.

The mind itself is the maker of all happiness and misery; yet beings do not understand this and blame external conditions.

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.