The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

The Buddha's teaching is a middle way between all extremes, between eternalism and annihilationism, between self-indulgence and self-torture.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

The only things that are truly mine are my actions and their results.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy. This is the goal of Buddhist practice.

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

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks.

The practice of meditation is not about achieving states of bliss but about seeing things as they really are.

The key to the Buddha's teaching is not grasping, not trying to hold onto things that are essentially impermanent and unstable.

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

Meditation is not about trying to change ourselves. Meditation is about being aware of what is.

Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

The Dhamma unfolds in accordance with a definite sequence: faith, virtue, learning, generosity, wisdom, and insight.

To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

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

The practice of metta begins with oneself, for only when we have developed loving-kindness towards ourselves can we truly offer it to others.

If you want to know the past, look at the present. If you want to know the future, look at the present.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

Every being has the potential of becoming a Buddha. Our true nature is Buddha nature.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Where is the place that your original face has not yet emerged?

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

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

In true vipassana practice, there is no room for likes and dislikes. There is only observation.

Compassion is a verb.