Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.

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

Your own treasure house contains everything you need; why search outside?

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

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

Craving and aversion are the roots of suffering. Observe them with equanimity.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

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.

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

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

The mind is the source of all happiness and the source of all suffering.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

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

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

When we know the truth, we become people who don't have to think much, we become people with wisdom.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

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.

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

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

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

The path to liberation is through understanding the true nature of mind and matter through direct observation.

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

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

Suffering is not the end of the story; it is the middle of the story.

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

Right View is not just a matter of intellectual understanding but of seeing things as they really are.

The farther you enter into truth, the deeper it is.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

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

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

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

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

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

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

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

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

The spiritual journey begins with the recognition that beneath our surface happiness there lies a deep inner pain.

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

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

Buddhas and ordinary beings are not two. Enlightenment and delusion are not different paths.

The path of practice requires both faith and wisdom, both devotion and understanding.

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

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

The mind that notes and the object that is noted are both impermanent. Understanding this leads to liberation.

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

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

The practice of ethics is not about following rules but about developing inner purity and freedom.

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.

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

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 essence of mind is empty like space; yet it contains all things, like a mirror.

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

The Dhamma unfolds in accordance with a definite sequence: faith, virtue, learning, generosity, wisdom, and insight.

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

Enlightenment is not a state of perfection but of authenticity.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.