Meditation is not just about sitting quietly, it's about transforming the mind.

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

When things fall apart and we're on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize.

Compassion is not something we develop. It arises naturally as we see the truth of what is.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Don't expect or desire anything. Just keep noting whatever arises in the present moment.

Life is available only in the present moment.

The Noble Eightfold Path is not a path of mere intellectual understanding but a path of practice, of inner transformation.

The truth of suffering is not to be feared but to be understood through direct observation.

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

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

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

The real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

The past is for learning from, not for living in.

Happiness is a skill that can be developed like playing an instrument or learning to read.

Where there is great doubt, there is great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

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

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking.

The practice of mindfulness begins in the small, remote cave of your unconscious mind and blossoms with the sunlight of your conscious life.

Life is an art, and like perfect art it should be self-forgetting.

The practice of mindfulness leads naturally to concentration. Concentration leads naturally to wisdom.

There is no difference at all between samsara and nirvana. There is no difference at all between nirvana and samsara.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

The whole path of mindfulness is about letting go. We let go of our attachment to our views, our attachment to our opinions, our attachment to our ideas.