The realization of impermanence leads not to despair but to a deeper appreciation of the preciousness of each moment.

The root of suffering is attachment.

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

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

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

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

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

Instead of having a deep understanding of the teaching, we need a strong confidence in our teaching, which says that originally we have Buddha nature.

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

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

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

Happiness is not about getting what you want, but wanting what you've got.

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

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

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

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

Dependent origination is not a theory about the origin of the world but a teaching that shows how suffering originates in dependence on our own mental processes.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that buddhas recognize their nature while sentient beings fail to recognize it.

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

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

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

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

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

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

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.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

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

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

Wisdom arises when you see the true characteristics of phenomena through direct experience.

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

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

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

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

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

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

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

Loving-kindness is not something we need to manufacture. It's a natural expression of our awakened nature.

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

The six realms of existence are like a dream, why build a prison for yourself?

Birth and death are neither two things nor one thing. Life is not an appearance, death is not a disappearance.

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

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

The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. Those who are possessed of the view of emptiness are said to be incurable.

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

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.

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

To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.

Life is an art, and like perfect art it should be self-forgetting.

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

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Trees, mountains, and vines all exist in nature according to their own truth. They are born and die following their nature. They remain this way because that's what they are. They don't practice meditation or do anything special.

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

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

The mind that notes and the object that is noted are both impermanent. Understanding this leads to liberation.

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