To live – is that not enough? To love – is that not everything?

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

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.

Every being has the potential of becoming a Buddha. Our true nature is Buddha nature.

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

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.

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

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

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

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

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

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

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

Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.

The quality of every moment depends on the state of our minds.

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

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

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

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.

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

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

The root of suffering is attachment.

Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is the space of possibility.

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

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.

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.

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

Enlightenment is not a state of perfection but of authenticity.

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

The practice of Buddhism is fundamentally a practice of expanding our happiness and diminishing our suffering.

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.

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

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

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

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

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

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

Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is awakened.

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

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

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

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

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

The past is for learning from, not for living in.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

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

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

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

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

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

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

The Buddha's teaching is a teaching of self-reliance, of being one's own master, one's own refuge.

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

When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth.