If you want to find peace, then look at that point where you find you're dissatisfied and investigate what's really going on.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher.

Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: you won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

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

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.

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.

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer, see it, know it, be empty.

The mind is intrinsically empty. It's empty of all that we perceive as being intrinsically "me" and "mine."

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside.

The heart of the path is quite simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are.

Meditation is like catching a fish. If you try to catch it quickly, you'll miss it. If you have patience and know how to wait, the fish will come.

Whatever we do, we should see ourselves. Reading books doesn't show us our defilements. Watch yourself. Watch your mind.

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

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

The heart of one who practices is like the earth. No matter what they throw on it, the earth remains unchanged.

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

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.