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.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy. This is the goal of Buddhist practice.

The Buddha's teachings are not a religion, but a science of mind.

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

Whoever told you that practice and enlightenment are separate?

The purpose of Buddhist practice is not to become a Buddhist but to awaken to the nature of reality.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

The person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

The deepest happiness comes from having an enduring sense of purpose, one that gives our lives meaning beyond the endless pursuit of pleasure and success.

The mind that sees its own nature becomes free from all extremes.

We need the courage to learn from our experience and the wisdom to be willing to change and grow.

The realization of impermanence leads not to despair but to a deeper appreciation of the preciousness of each moment.

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

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

The only way to experience truth is to look within, to observe oneself.

The more clearly you see the arising and passing of phenomena, the less you will be attached to them.

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

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

When mindfulness is weak, defilements are strong; when mindfulness is strong, defilements are weak.

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

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.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

Altruism is not a luxury, it is a necessity for the survival of humanity.

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

The signs of practice are not in extraordinary experiences but in extraordinary awareness of ordinary experiences.

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.

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