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.

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

Just to be alive is enough.

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

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

The lamp of wisdom burns constantly, illuminating the nature of mind.

People who study a lot but don't practice are like a ladle in a soup pot. It's in the soup every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that life contains suffering. The second noble truth is that the cause of suffering is craving.

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

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

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 purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation, is itself the middle way.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

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

The deepest form of happiness comes from discovering the natural peace of our own awareness.

The path is not about moving from one place to another. It's about recognizing where we already are.

The menu is not the meal.

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

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

The essence of the spiritual journey is the uncovering of what is always already present.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

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

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

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

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

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

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

All beings by nature are Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

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.

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

The three characteristics - impermanence, suffering, and non-self - are not philosophical concepts but aspects of experience to be directly observed.

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

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

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

The nature of everything is empty and clear, and the mind is beyond both existence and nonexistence.

The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

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

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

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

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

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

There is no difference at all between samsara and nirvana. There is no difference at all between nirvana and samsara.

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

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

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

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

Through continuous mindfulness practice, the true nature of physical and mental phenomena becomes clear.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

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

In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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 essence of all phenomena is empty and clear like space. The nature of mind is awareness-emptiness like the sun and sky.

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the "support," of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

The Four Noble Truths are not mere doctrinal propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our lives.