When thoughts arise, recognize them as the display of your own awareness, like recognizing your own children in a crowd.

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

When we see the nature of the mind, we see that we are not our thoughts.

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

The only things that are truly mine are my actions and their results.

Each breath is a new beginning, a fresh opportunity to awaken.

If you want to know the past, look at the present. If you want to know the future, look at the present.

The only thing that we truly have control over is our attitude toward experience.

The water in the ocean can be rough or calm. It can be clear or murky. But the water itself doesn't mind.

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.

When you love someone, you have to have trust and confidence. Love without trust is not yet love.

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

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

Loving-kindness is not something we need to manufacture. It's a natural expression of our awakened nature.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

The teaching of the Buddha is based on two truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. Without understanding the relationship between these two, the deeper meaning of the Buddha's teaching cannot be understood.

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

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.

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

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

The practice of mindfulness is simple: whatever you experience, you observe and note it.

The dharma wheel turns from the beginning. There is neither excess nor deficiency. The whole universe is moistened with nectar, and the truth is ready to harvest.

In the monastery of your body, the monk of your mind must stay in retreat.

Our defilements are like tame tigers. If you feed them, they're tame. If you stop feeding them, they'll eat you up.

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.