The most profound meditation is to think nothing at all.

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

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

Mindfulness means keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality.

You are the master of your own mind. You can be your best friend or your worst enemy.

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

Mindfulness is being aware of what is happening right now, without wishing it were different.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

The development of wisdom requires both study and practice, both learning and direct experience.

The measure of success in spiritual life is how peaceful you are.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

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

The practice of mindfulness leads naturally to concentration. Concentration leads naturally to wisdom.

Compassion is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.

When you note pain, you are not trying to make it go away. You are trying to understand its true nature.

The Buddha's teaching challenges us to master the art of living, to live in a way that leads to the extinction of suffering.

Personal experience is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

The only thing that we truly have control over is our attitude toward experience.

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things.

Through understanding emptiness, one does not become proud of one's virtues, just as one does not become proud of building a castle in the sky.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

Meditation is not an escape from life but a way to fully engage with life.

Understanding at the intellectual level is not enough. There must be experience at the actual level.

When mindfulness is weak, defilements are strong; when mindfulness is strong, defilements are weak.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks.

In the monastery of your body, the monk of your mind must stay in retreat.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

True peace comes not from controlling the world, but from letting go of control.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.

Every moment of mindfulness is a step on the path to liberation. Each step is valuable, no matter how small.

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 entire path is a path of self-responsibility. Nobody else can walk it for you.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have - it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

Meditation is like catching a fish. If you try to catch it quickly, you'll miss it. If you have patience and know how to wait, the fish will come.

The practice of mindfulness is simple: whatever you experience, you observe and note it.

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

Our defilements are like tame tigers. If you feed them, they're tame. If you stop feeding them, they'll eat you up.

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense.

The movement of love is what creates the beauty in our lives.

The teaching is simple: act with kindness and compassion. If you cannot do this, at least try not to harm others.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

The Dhamma unfolds in accordance with a definite sequence: faith, virtue, learning, generosity, wisdom, and insight.

Panic is a gateway to wisdom. When we learn to stay present with our panic, it becomes our teacher.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Compassion is not just about being kind to others. It's about being kind to ourselves as well.

Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself.

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

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

Meditation is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about changing the way we relate to them.

Karma is not fate but the law of moral causation, showing us that we are the architects of our own destiny.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

Mindfulness is the quality and power of mind that is aware of what's happening—without judgment and without interference.

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as your capacity to ground your attention in the present moment.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.