The dharma is not about collecting more beliefs but about becoming free from the power of belief itself.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

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

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

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

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

The Buddha taught that wealth does not bring happiness and security. The pursuit of wealth is a matter of living in balance.

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

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.

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

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

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

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

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

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

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

Without darkness, there is no light. Without the path, there is no arrival.

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

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

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

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

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

Those who understand interdependent origination understand suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

Love is the wish that others be happy, and compassion is the wish that they be free from suffering.

The nature of mind is not something we need to achieve - it's something we need to recognize.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that life contains suffering. The second noble truth is that the cause of suffering is craving.

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

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

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

The essence of Buddhism is not a belief system but a systematic investigation of our experience.

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

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

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

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

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

This very body is the Buddha. And this very earth the lotus paradise.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

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

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 person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

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

The Buddha's path is not about becoming somebody different but about becoming more and more who you really are.

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

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

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

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

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