The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

Concentration develops naturally through continuous noting. Don't try to force concentration to arise.

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

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

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

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Concentration and insight are like two wings of a bird: both are necessary for the flight to liberation.

Meditation is not about trying to change your experience; it's about changing your relationship to your experience.

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

When you generate negativity, you are the first victim of your negativity.

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

The most important things in our practice are our physical posture and our way of breathing.

Start from where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The essence of all phenomena is empty and clear like space. The nature of mind is awareness-emptiness like the sun and sky.

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

The ultimate revolution is the spiritual revolution, where we learn to see reality as it truly is.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophy or a religion; it is a method of practice.

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

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.

In meditation, we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

True happiness is not about getting rid of all our problems, but about changing our relationship to them.

When we understand that peace is not dependent on external conditions, we can find it in the midst of any circumstance.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time.

Though the view should be as vast as the sky, keep your conduct as fine as barley flour.

The Dhamma is not a collection of doctrinal formulas but a path leading to direct insight into the nature of reality.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

When mindfulness becomes continuous, the distinction between the observer and the observed begins to break down.