Meditation is not about trying to change your experience; it's about changing your relationship to your experience.

When we understand others, we understand ourselves. When we love others, we love ourselves.

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside.

The essence of Buddhism is not a belief system but a systematic investigation of our experience.

Real happiness lies within. It cannot be found in external objects or achievements.

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

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

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

In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

The treasure house within you contains everything, and you are free to use it. You don't need to seek outside.

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

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

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.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

The heart of one who practices is like the earth. No matter what they throw on it, the earth remains unchanged.

Ethical conduct is not a constraint upon our freedom but a condition of our freedom.

The perfect moment is this one, not the one you're waiting for.

The more we understand impermanence, the more we understand that we can't hold on to anything.

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

The only thing that we truly have control over is our attitude toward experience.

The path to liberation is through understanding the true nature of mind and matter through direct observation.

Every moment is a fresh beginning. Every breath is a new chance.

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

The essence of mind is empty like space; yet it contains all things, like a mirror.

The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact.

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.

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.

Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer evil with good. Conquer stinginess with giving. Conquer deceit with truth.

Better to have one moment of genuine meditation than to perform religious activities for a thousand years.

The noting mind and the object noted appear to occur as a pair. Through concentration they are seen to arise and vanish together.

The past is just a memory. The future is just a dream. Be here now.

True happiness is not about getting rid of all our problems, but about changing our relationship to them.