Real peace comes from seeing things as they really are, not as we want them to be.

The root of all suffering is ignorance. The antidote to ignorance is wisdom that realizes emptiness.

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

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

The knowledge of dissolution comes when you see both the noting mind and noted object dissolving together.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

The menu is not the meal.

The practice of vipassana is the study of the self. When you study physical and mental phenomena, you are studying the truth about yourself.

The essence of the teaching is emptiness and compassion. Without emptiness, compassion can become attachment. Without compassion, emptiness can become cold and distant.

By understanding emptiness, one understands all phenomena. Without understanding emptiness, one understands nothing.

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

When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth.

The purpose of Buddhist practice is not to become a Buddhist but to awaken to the nature of reality.

Altruism is not a luxury, it is a necessity for the survival of humanity.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

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

Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Love is the wish that others be happy, and compassion is the wish that they be free from suffering.

The deepest happiness comes from having an enduring sense of purpose, one that gives our lives meaning beyond the endless pursuit of pleasure and success.

The quality of every moment depends on the state of our minds.

The Dhamma is not a collection of doctrinal formulas but a path leading to direct insight into the nature of reality.

Change is possible because there is nothing inherently permanent about our disturbing emotions.

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

Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is the space of possibility.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Life is like a cup of tea. It's all in how you make it.

The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. Those who are possessed of the view of emptiness are said to be incurable.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Real happiness comes from having an unshakable connection to the deep wellspring of peace and happiness that is not dependent on external conditions.

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

In the beginning, nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.

The Buddha's teachings are not a religion, but a science of mind.

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

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

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

Wisdom arises when you see the true characteristics of phenomena through direct experience.

Our basic nature is pure awareness that simply cognizes experience. Everything else is temporary and adventitious.

Happiness is not about getting what you want, but wanting what you've got.

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

Suffering comes from our resistance to what is. Peace comes from our acceptance of what is.

Past thoughts are traceless, clear, and empty. Future thoughts are unborn and fresh. The present moment abides naturally and unconstructed.

The cultivation of loving-kindness is the thread that runs through all Buddhist teachings.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

Those who grasp at things as truly existent are like someone trying to catch the reflection of the moon in water.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

The realization of impermanence leads not to despair but to a deeper appreciation of the preciousness of each moment.

The root of suffering is attachment.

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

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

The Buddha's teaching is a teaching of self-reliance, of being one's own master, one's own refuge.

The ocean does not reject any water; therefore it is great. The mountain does not select its stones; therefore it is great.

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

The dharma is not about collecting more beliefs but about becoming free from the power of belief itself.

The way we look at the world is the way the world looks.

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

The nature of mind is like a mirror. It is not affected by whatever appears in it, yet it never fails to reflect everything perfectly.