To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Those who grasp at things as truly existent are like someone trying to catch the reflection of the moon in water.

When we look directly at our thoughts, they dissolve like bubbles in water.

The Buddha taught that wealth does not bring happiness and security. The pursuit of wealth is a matter of living in balance.

In the spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in the summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you.

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

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

Every moment is a fresh beginning. Every breath is a new chance.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

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

The path of practice moves from faith through understanding to direct realization.

True peace comes not from controlling the world, but from letting go of control.

Time passes unhindered. When we make ourselves better, we make the world better.

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

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

Compassion is not just about being kind to others. It's about being kind to ourselves as well.

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

The movement of love is what creates the beauty in our lives.

Face your own anger and you will be free from anger. Face your own fears and you will be free from fear.

Panic is a gateway to wisdom. When we learn to stay present with our panic, it becomes our teacher.

When we know the truth, we become people who don't have to think much, we become people with wisdom.

Peace in oneself, peace in the world.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay.

The four foundations of mindfulness are not separate practices but different aspects of the same practice of clear awareness.

Real happiness comes from having an unshakable connection to the deep wellspring of peace and happiness that is not dependent on external conditions.

The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.

The challenge in meditation is not to eliminate thinking but to understand the nature of thought itself.

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

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.

The moment you note a thought, it disappears. The noting mind keeps the hindrances away.