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

Meditation is the road to happiness.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

The trouble is, you think you have time.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.

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

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

We need to learn to let our emotions pass through us like waves, without getting caught in their undertow.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.

Buddhist practice is not to eliminate life's problems but to grow with them patiently and with compassion.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

There are many ways to meditate. But at the heart of them all is mindfulness.

Our own life has to be our message.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but through understanding and through letting go.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.