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

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

When we understand that peace is not dependent on external conditions, we can find it in the midst of any circumstance.

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

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

The ultimate revolution is the spiritual revolution, where we learn to see reality as it truly is.

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.

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

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

The world is its own magic.

In Zen there must be satori; there must be a general mental upheaval which destroys the old accumulations of intellection and lays down the foundation for a new life.

The person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

The secret of happiness lies not in getting what we want, but in learning to want what we already have.

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

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

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

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

Life is available only in the present moment.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

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

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

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

Happiness is not the pursuit of an endless succession of experiences but an attitude toward life.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

The Buddha's teaching is not about belief but about investigation, not about accepting but about examining.

Dependent origination is not a theory about the origin of the world but a teaching that shows how suffering originates in dependence on our own mental processes.

The root of suffering is attachment.

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.

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

Ethical conduct is not a constraint upon our freedom but a condition of our freedom.

What we learn about the world is colored by the way we approach it.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Since all things are empty of inherent existence, anything is possible. If things had inherent existence, nothing would be possible.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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

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

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

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

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.

The one who grasps at existence suffers in samsara, while the one who grasps at non-existence will find no liberation.

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

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

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

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

The past is just a memory. The future is just a dream. Be here now.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Just to be alive is enough.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Karma is not fate but the law of moral causation, showing us that we are the architects of our own destiny.

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

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