The path to liberation requires both individual effort and the support of the spiritual community.

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

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that's really swell.

The teaching is simple: act with kindness and compassion. If you cannot do this, at least try not to harm others.

The deepest happiness comes from having an enduring sense of purpose, one that gives our lives meaning beyond the endless pursuit of pleasure and success.

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

The mind is intrinsically empty. It's empty of all that we perceive as being intrinsically "me" and "mine."

Compassion is a verb.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

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

The entire path is a path of self-responsibility. Nobody else can walk it for you.

The four foundations of mindfulness are not separate practices but different aspects of the same practice of clear awareness.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

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

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Mindfulness is being aware of what's going on, not trying to control what's going on.

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

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

Wisdom arises when you see the true characteristics of phenomena through direct experience.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

The practice of meditation is like tuning an instrument. Too tight, and the strings break. Too loose, and they won't play.

True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through cultivation of altruism, of love, of compassion.

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

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.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.