Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

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

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

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

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

There is no difference at all between samsara and nirvana. There is no difference at all between nirvana and samsara.

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

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.

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead, it's about becoming more fully human.

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

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

The path to liberation requires both individual effort and the support of the spiritual community.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

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

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.

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

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.

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.

The time of the past becomes the present, the time of the present becomes the future, the time of the future becomes the present, and the time of the present becomes the past.

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

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

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

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

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

What we learn about the world is colored by the way we approach it.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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

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

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

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 is not about moving from one place to another. It's about recognizing where we already are.

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

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

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.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

When we understand that peace is not dependent on external conditions, we can find it in the midst of any circumstance.

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

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

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

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

Real happiness comes from having an unshakable connection to the deep wellspring of peace and happiness that is not dependent on external conditions.

The nature of mind is like a mirror. It is not affected by whatever appears in it, yet it never fails to reflect everything perfectly.

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.

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

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

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

Those who grasp at things as truly existent are like someone trying to catch the reflection of the moon in water.

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

Although all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, they function perfectly well.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

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

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

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

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

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

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