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

The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.

Compassion is not something we develop. It arises naturally as we see the truth of what is.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

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

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

The superior person is like water, bringing benefit to all without competing.

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

Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

The deepest form of happiness comes from discovering the natural peace of our own awareness.

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

Suffering comes from our resistance to what is. Peace comes from our acceptance of what is.

The heart of the path is quite simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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.

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.

The essence of Buddhist practice is to bring everything onto the path. Every experience becomes an opportunity for awakening.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

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

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

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

The path is the goal. Every step of the journey is the journey.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time.

All that appears and exists, all of samsara and nirvana, has one ground, two paths, and two results. This is the magical display of awareness and unawareness.

Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is the space of possibility.

The mind is like a well-forged sword - it adapts to all situations.

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.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

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

Happiness is found in the simplest of things. It is not in the things you own, but in the love you share.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

When we know the truth, we become people who don't have to think much, we become people with wisdom.

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

The essence of meditation is not something complicated or exotic. It is simply taking a break from our habitual patterns.

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

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

The Dhamma is not a collection of doctrinal formulas but a path leading to direct insight into the nature of reality.

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

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

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

The farther you enter into truth, the deeper it is.

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

The restraint of the senses is not a matter of suppression but of wise attention to our experience.

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

Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer evil with good. Conquer stinginess with giving. Conquer deceit with truth.

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

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

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.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Enlightenment is not about becoming something special, but about realizing what we already are.

True happiness is not about getting rid of all our problems, but about changing our relationship to them.

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

The more precisely you note, the more clearly you understand. The more clearly you understand, the stronger your insight becomes.