Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

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

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

Birth and death are neither two things nor one thing. Life is not an appearance, death is not a disappearance.

Through continuous mindfulness practice, the true nature of physical and mental phenomena becomes clear.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.

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

The state of mind that exists when you sit in the right posture is, itself, enlightenment.

Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, just as ice and water are of the same substance.

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The practice of mindfulness is simply to bring awareness to what we are doing, what we are saying, and what we are thinking.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

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

The nature of mind is clearer than the sky, yet we keep looking elsewhere.

To live – is that not enough? To love – is that not everything?

The purpose of meditation is not to create a mental vacuum but to come to know one's own mind.

The nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.

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

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

The view is like a lion - it cannot be led around by anything else. Meditation is like an eagle - it cannot be distracted by anything else. Action is like a madman - it is free from accepting and rejecting.

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

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.