Face your own anger and you will be free from anger. Face your own fears and you will be free from fear.

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.

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 whole path of mindfulness is about letting go. We let go of our attachment to our views, our attachment to our opinions, our attachment to our ideas.

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

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Our own life has to be our message.

True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through cultivation of altruism, of love, of compassion.

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

The Buddha's teaching is not about belief but about investigation, not about accepting but about examining.

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

Right practice is steady practice. Whether you feel lazy or diligent, just keep practicing.

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

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

We deal with our mind from morning until evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

Each moment of noting is a moment of purification, a moment of cultivating the path.

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

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

The practice of mindfulness begins in the small, remote cave of your unconscious mind and blossoms with the sunlight of your conscious life.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind.

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

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

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

We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.

Mindfulness is being aware of what's going on, not trying to control what's going on.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

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

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

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

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

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

The practice of mindfulness is simply to bring awareness to what we are doing, what we are saying, and what we are thinking.

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer, see it, know it, be empty.

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

The practice of metta begins with oneself, for only when we have developed loving-kindness towards ourselves can we truly offer it to others.

The perfect moment is this one, not the one you're waiting for.

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

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

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

The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.

In true vipassana practice, there is no room for likes and dislikes. There is only observation.

Every thought, every word, and every action leaves an imprint on our mind.

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

Metta (loving-kindness) becomes truly effective only when it arises from a peaceful mind, a pure mind, a balanced mind.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

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

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

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

The mind is like a room with many windows. Open them all and let the fresh air in.

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

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

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

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind.

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

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

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

Short moments, many times. That is the essence of meditation practice.