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

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

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

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

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

The Four Noble Truths are not merely theoretical propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our experience.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

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 Buddha and all sentient beings are nothing but expressions of the one mind. There is nothing else.

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

Wisdom is not about accumulating knowledge, but about seeing through all knowledge.

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.

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

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

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

The nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.

Don't try to push away the darkness. Just light a lamp. The darkness will disappear by itself.

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

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

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

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

All that appears and exists, all of samsara and nirvana, has one ground, two paths, and two results. This is the magical display of awareness and unawareness.

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

The mind is intrinsically empty. It's empty of all that we perceive as being intrinsically "me" and "mine."

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

When we understand others, we understand ourselves. When we love others, we love ourselves.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

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

The more you understand impermanence, the more you appreciate every moment.

Appearances are mind, mind itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is spontaneous presence.

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

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Trees, mountains, and vines all exist in nature according to their own truth. They are born and die following their nature. They remain this way because that's what they are. They don't practice meditation or do anything special.

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

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

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

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 nature of the mind is like the sky, and our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are like clouds passing through it.

Change is the nature of every phenomenon. Accept this truth and you will live a happy life.

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.

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

Just to be alive is enough.

Real happiness lies within. It cannot be found in external objects or achievements.

The more we understand impermanence, the more we understand that we can't hold on to anything.

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

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

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look into your present actions.

The root of suffering is attachment.

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

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

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

If you want to know the past, look at the present. If you want to know the future, look at the present.

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.