Wisdom is not something we have to strive to acquire. Rather, wisdom arises naturally as we open our hearts to the truth of what is.

Everybody has the light of Buddha within, but they don't look for it.

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

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

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

The world is its own magic.

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

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

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

The way is basically perfect. It is not a matter of practice or enlightenment.

The Buddha's teaching challenges us to master the art of living, to live in a way that leads to the extinction of suffering.

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.

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

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

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

Peace is not found by changing the world, but by changing your attitude to the world.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

The path of practice moves from faith through understanding to direct realization.

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

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

The eye with which I see Buddha is the same eye with which Buddha sees me.

When you are you, Zen is Zen. Big mind is just big mind.

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

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

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

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.

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

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

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

The only things that are truly mine are my actions and their results.

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.

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

Just to be alive is enough.

The nature of life is change. The nature of change is painful. The nature of pain is temporary.

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

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

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

The menu is not the meal.

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

Real freedom is not about controlling our experience, but about being free within our experience.

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

The key to the Buddha's teaching is not grasping, not trying to hold onto things that are essentially impermanent and unstable.

The defilements of the mind are temporary visitors. Pure awareness is your true home.

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

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

Each moment of clear seeing is a moment of freedom from the illusion of permanence, satisfaction, and self.

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

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

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

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

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

For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible. For whom emptiness is not possible, nothing is possible.

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

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

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

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

The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophical system but a practical guide to living.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.