The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

The ultimate purpose of Buddhism is to serve and benefit humanity.

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

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

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

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

Suffering comes from our resistance to what is. Peace comes from our acceptance of what is.

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

The Buddha's teaching is not about belief but about investigation, not about accepting but about examining.

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

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

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

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

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

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

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

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

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

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

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

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

The Noble Eightfold Path is not a path of mere intellectual understanding but a path of practice, of inner transformation.

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

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

The practice of vipassana is the study of the self. When you study physical and mental phenomena, you are studying the truth about yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: you won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

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

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

Zen is not necessarily against words, but it is well aware of their limitations.

Don't be a bodhisatta; don't be an arahant; don't be anything at all. Being something makes you suffer.

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

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

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

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

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 path is not about becoming somebody different but about becoming more and more who you really are.

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.

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

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

The secret of happiness is to want what you already have.

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

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