Every being has the potential of becoming a Buddha. Our true nature is Buddha nature.

Meditation is not an escape from life but a way to fully engage with life.

The more you understand yourself, the more you understand the world.

The ultimate purpose of Buddhism is to serve and benefit humanity.

The Buddha taught that wealth does not bring happiness and security. The pursuit of wealth is a matter of living in balance.

The essence of Buddhism is not a belief system but a systematic investigation of our experience.

Enlightenment is the realization that we were never really separate from one another or from all of life.

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

The purpose of life is to be happy, to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is not to be well known, cited, or powerful.

The key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion.

The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophy or a religion; it is a method of practice.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy. This is the goal of Buddhist practice.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy, and happiness is found in benefiting others.

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

Liberation is found in the practice, not in the theory.

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

When we develop patience, we find that we develop a reserve of calm and tranquility.

The path is the goal. Every step of the journey is the journey.