Knowledge must be stabilized by meditation. Without meditation, knowledge is like a child in battle.

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

The practitioner and practice are like fire and wood. The more you practice, the more you burn.

A pure mind is always full of love - real love for all others.

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

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

The deepest form of happiness comes from discovering the natural peace of our own awareness.

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense.

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.

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

The archer ceases to be conscious of himself as the one who is engaged in hitting the bull's-eye which confronts him. This state of unconsciousness is realized only when, completely empty and rid of the self, he becomes one with the perfecting of his technical skill.

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

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

The grass is greener where you water it.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat white beads.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

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.

True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through cultivation of altruism, of love, of compassion.

The great gift of meditation is that it returns us to the simplicity of our own being.

The essence of meditation is not something complicated or exotic. It is simply taking a break from our habitual patterns.

Personal experience is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

The measure of success in spiritual life is how peaceful you are.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

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

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

In the moment of love, awareness is very strong. Use that awareness, that strength of consciousness, to look into yourself.

The way is basically perfect. It is not a matter of practice or enlightenment.

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