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

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. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.

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.

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

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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