A pure mind is always full of love - real love for all others.

Happiness is not the pursuit of an endless succession of experiences but an attitude toward life.

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

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

Many people think excitement is happiness... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

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

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

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.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

The only way to experience truth is to look within, to observe oneself.

Those who understand interdependent origination understand suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

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

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

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

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

The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

The dharma is not outside of you. Looking for it elsewhere is like placing a Buddha on your head while searching for him everywhere else.

The root of all suffering is ignorance. The antidote to ignorance is wisdom that realizes emptiness.

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

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.

Kindness is the solution to all of life's problems.

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

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

Without darkness, there is no light. Without the path, there is no arrival.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

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

The Buddha's teaching is a middle way between all extremes, between eternalism and annihilationism, between self-indulgence and self-torture.

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

Self-awareness is the key to freedom. The more we understand ourselves, the more we understand how to be free.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

The nature of all things is like a magical illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection of the moon in water.

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

Since all things are empty of inherent existence, anything is possible. If things had inherent existence, nothing would be possible.

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

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

Equanimity is not indifference. It is the balanced state of mind.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

The practice is not about achieving special states but about seeing ordinary experience with extraordinary clarity.

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

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

The root of suffering is attachment.

The practice of vipassana is the study of the self. When you study physical and mental phenomena, you are studying the truth about yourself.

The more you understand impermanence, the more you appreciate every moment.

True freedom is a freedom from the tyranny of our own thoughts and afflictive emotions.

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

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.

The true path is not difficult; just avoid picking and choosing.

The way we look at the world is the way the world looks.

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

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

Observe the reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

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.

Right View is not just a matter of intellectual understanding but of seeing things as they really are.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Be happy at the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.