The treasure house within you contains everything, and you are free to use it. You don't need to seek outside.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

When the heart is still, it can be kind. When the mind is still, it can see clearly.

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

The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind.

Sticking with uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.

The practice is not about achieving special states but about seeing ordinary experience with extraordinary clarity.

Mindfulness is the key to transformation. It enables us to see our experience as it really is, free from distortion and bias.

The more we understand our mind, the more we understand the world.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that buddhas recognize their nature while sentient beings fail to recognize it.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

Happiness is not about getting what you want, but wanting what you've got.

When the mind is ready to understand, the truth will come to meet it.

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 mind is everything. What you think you become.

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

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfection.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

The most important factor in achieving happiness is the mind. Happiness and suffering are mental states and therefore depend on the mind.

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.

We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.