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

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

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

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

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

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

Enlightenment is not about becoming something special, but about realizing what we already are.

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 path of awakening is not about becoming who we think we should be, but about unbecoming who we are not.

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

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

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

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

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

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

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

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

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

Just to be alive is enough.

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

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Appearances are mind, mind itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is spontaneous presence.

Sankharas are the seeds of consciousness that manifest as sensations. By observing sensations equanimously, we stop creating new sankharas.

All beings by nature are Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

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.

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

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

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

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.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

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

Life is available only in the present moment.

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

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

The menu is not the meal.

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

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

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

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma.

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.

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

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

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

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

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

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.

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

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

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