Compassion is not just about being kind to others. It's about being kind to ourselves as well.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

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

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.

The greatest obstacle to meditation is our expectation about what it should be.

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that's all that's happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves a big deal and being really serious about it, wanting it to be like that forever. The gloriousness becomes tinged by craving and addiction. On the other hand, wretchedness--life's painful aspect--softens us up considerably. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Our task is to learn to see clearly what is happening in each moment, rather than be lost in our reactions and judgments.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

The practice of Dharma is a constant battle within oneself.

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

When we understand that peace is not dependent on external conditions, we can find it in the midst of any circumstance.

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

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life.

Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.

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

Sleep is the best meditation.

When you realize the emptiness of all phenomena, compassion will arise in your heart for all sentient beings who do not understand this truth.

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The path of practice requires both faith and wisdom, both devotion and understanding.

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

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

The practice of Buddhism is fundamentally a practice of expanding our happiness and diminishing our suffering.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

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.

In Zen there must be satori; there must be a general mental upheaval which destroys the old accumulations of intellection and lays down the foundation for a new life.

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

Wisdom is not about accumulating knowledge, but about seeing through all knowledge.