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

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.

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

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.

In meditation, we're not trying to get rid of thoughts but to recognize their true nature.

The goal of Buddhist practice is not to escape from the world but to transform our relationship with it.

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

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

Meditation is not about getting away from it all. It's about getting into it all.

Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat white beads.

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

The goal of meditation is not to achieve a blank mind, but to gain insight into the nature of mind itself.

Just observe whatever arises. Don't try to create anything, and don't reject anything.

The highest mantra is to be without deception. The highest medicine is to have few desires. The highest meditation is not to be attached.

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

We need the courage to learn from our experience and the wisdom to be willing to change and grow.

The technique of self-observation is the technique of observing the reality about oneself at the experiential level.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The Four Noble Truths are not mere doctrinal propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our lives.

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.

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

Your mind is like a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

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 miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.

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

True happiness is not found through the multiplication of desires but through their simplification.

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

Every sensation shares the same characteristic - arising, passing. Arising, passing. Learn to observe objectively.

Meditation is not about achieving anything. It's about letting go of everything.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking.

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

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

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

The key to transformation is not to fight with our experience but to open to it with awareness.

Faith is the firm foundation, diligence the supporting pillar, and wisdom the roof of the house of practice.

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

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

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

The law of nature is the law of cause and effect. As you sow, so shall you reap.

Start from where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The archer ceases to be conscious of himself as the one who is engaged in hitting the bull's-eye which confronts him. This state of unconsciousness is realized only when, completely empty and rid of the self, he becomes one with the perfecting of his technical skill.

The door of your heart can only be opened from the inside.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

The path to liberation is a gradual path of self-discipline, self-development, and self-transformation.

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

Insight knowledge comes from direct experience, not from intellectual understanding.

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