Anxiety and excitement are the same emotion. The only difference is our attitude toward the experience.

The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

The spiritual journey begins with the recognition that beneath our surface happiness there lies a deep inner pain.

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

Love is not a feeling. It's a capability.

Don't be a bodhisatta; don't be an arahant; don't be anything at all. Being something makes you suffer.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

The stages of insight unfold naturally when mindfulness is continuous. There is no need to desire them or try to make them happen.

The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that's really swell.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

The obstacle is the path.

When mindfulness and concentration are strong, insight into the three characteristics naturally unfolds.

The Noble Eightfold Path is not a path of mere intellectual understanding but a path of practice, of inner transformation.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

The door of your heart can only be opened from the inside.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

Equanimity is not indifference. It is the balanced state of mind.

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

Genuine happiness comes from having developed basic human qualities, such as attention, emotional balance, and generosity.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

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

Happiness is found in the simplest of things. It is not in the things you own, but in the love you share.

The purpose of meditation is not to create a new state of mind, but to recognize what is already present.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

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

Mindfulness is being aware of what is happening right now, without wishing it were different.

Whoever told you that practice and enlightenment are separate?

Maintain the state of undistractedness and distractions will fly away.

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are not our thoughts.