Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

Sleep is the best meditation.

To be attached to a thing means that mind and the thing meet and grow into each other.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

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

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that life contains suffering. The second noble truth is that the cause of suffering is craving.

When I run from suffering, it follows me. When I face suffering with equanimity, it runs from me.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

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

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

Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.

Meditation is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about changing the way we relate to them.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

The Buddha's path is not about becoming somebody different but about becoming more and more who you really are.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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

Love is not a feeling. It's a capability.

Metta (loving-kindness) becomes truly effective only when it arises from a peaceful mind, a pure mind, a balanced mind.

The key to meditation is to recognize the nature of your mind rather than trying to change it.

The precious pot containing my riches becomes my teacher in the very moment it breaks.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that's all that's happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves a big deal and being really serious about it, wanting it to be like that forever. The gloriousness becomes tinged by craving and addiction. On the other hand, wretchedness--life's painful aspect--softens us up considerably. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

The dharma wheel turns from the beginning. There is neither excess nor deficiency. The whole universe is moistened with nectar, and the truth is ready to harvest.

The practice of ethics is not about following rules but about developing inner purity and freedom.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Mindfulness is the quality and power of mind that is aware of what's happening—without judgment and without interference.