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.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.

Right practice is steady practice. Whether you feel lazy or diligent, just keep practicing.

Peace in oneself, peace in the world.

Compassion is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past could have been any different.

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

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.

Self-awareness is the key to freedom. The more we understand ourselves, the more we understand how to be free.

We deal with our mind from morning until evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

True freedom is a freedom from the tyranny of our own thoughts and afflictive emotions.

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

The heart of the path is quite simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

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

Liberation is not found by running away from our experience but by looking deeply into it.

Each breath is a new beginning, a fresh opportunity to awaken.

The practice is simply this: keep coming back to your breath during the day. This will give your mind a steadiness and your life a balance.

Kindness is the solution to all of life's problems.

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness.

The technique of self-observation is the technique of observing the reality about oneself at the experiential level.

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

The purpose of Buddhist practice is not to become a Buddhist but to awaken to the nature of reality.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

The practice is not about achieving special states but about seeing ordinary experience with extraordinary clarity.

The Buddha's teaching is not about belief but about investigation, not about accepting but about examining.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.