Love is not a feeling. It's a capability.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.

The path of practice moves from faith through understanding to direct realization.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Every step on the path must be with the understanding of anicca - impermanence. This is the essence of the teaching.

When you see forms or hear sounds fully engaging body-and-mind, you intuit dharma intimately.

Don't expect or desire anything. Just keep noting whatever arises in the present moment.

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

The first step toward faith is to admit that we don't know everything.

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

When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.

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

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

When we develop patience, we find that we develop a reserve of calm and tranquility.

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

Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.

Panic, anxiety, and stress are not obstacles to the practice. They are the path to wisdom and compassion.

Knowledge must be stabilized by meditation. Without meditation, knowledge is like a child in battle.

May all beings be happy, be peaceful, be liberated.

Mindfulness is not just bare attention but wise attention that leads to understanding and insight.

Our true nature is like a diamond - pure, brilliant, and indestructible. No matter how much dirt covers it, its essential nature remains unchanged.

The best way to solve a problem is to help someone else solve their problem.

The path of insight is a path of discovery, not a path of creation. We are discovering what is already there.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

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

The trouble is, you think you have time.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

The development of insight is gradual, but the realization of truth is sudden.

Liberation is found in the practice, not in the theory.

The practitioner and practice are like fire and wood. The more you practice, the more you burn.

Every moment is a fresh beginning. Every breath is a new chance.

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

The master's introduction is direct recognition of one's own nature. Meditation is maintaining the continuity of this recognition.

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

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

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

The more you give, the more you have. That's the economics of kindness.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

Equanimity is not indifference. It is the balanced mind that sees things clearly without reaction.

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside.

Mindfulness is the gentle effort to be continuously present with experience.

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

Happiness is a skill that can be developed like playing an instrument or learning to read.

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

Misery ceases to exist when we stop reacting to sensations.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but through understanding and through letting go.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

The greatest obstacle to meditation is our expectation about what it should be.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

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

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.

Time passes unhindered. When we make ourselves better, we make the world better.

The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct way possible, without resorting to anything external or superadded.

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

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.