The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that's really swell.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact.

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

The dharma wheel turns from the beginning. There is neither excess nor deficiency. The whole universe is moistened with nectar, and the truth is ready to harvest.

The path to liberation requires both individual effort and the support of the spiritual community.

True happiness is not found through the multiplication of desires but through their simplification.

Happiness is found in the simplest of things. It is not in the things you own, but in the love you share.

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

Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, just as ice and water are of the same substance.

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The law of nature is the law of cause and effect. As you sow, so shall you reap.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness.

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

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

True happiness is not about getting rid of all our problems, but about changing our relationship to them.

The most important factor in achieving happiness is the mind. Happiness and suffering are mental states and therefore depend on the mind.

When you understand that all phenomena are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self, attachment naturally falls away.

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

Without darkness, there is no light. Without the path, there is no arrival.

Loving-kindness is not something we need to manufacture. It's a natural expression of our awakened nature.

The more we understand impermanence, the more we appreciate each moment of our lives.

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

The Buddha's path is not about becoming somebody different but about becoming more and more who you really are.

The Buddha's teaching is a middle way between all extremes, between eternalism and annihilationism, between self-indulgence and self-torture.

Birth and death are neither two things nor one thing. Life is not an appearance, death is not a disappearance.

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

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

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

The goal of Buddhist practice is not to escape from the world but to transform our relationship with it.

Although all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, they function perfectly well.

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

The more we understand the nature of our mind, the more we understand the nature of our world.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

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

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

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

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

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.

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

Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

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

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

To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

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.

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense.

Sankharas are the seeds of consciousness that manifest as sensations. By observing sensations equanimously, we stop creating new sankharas.

The path to liberation requires both understanding and practice, both pariyatti and patipatti.