The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

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

The key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion.

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

Each of you is perfect the way you are... and you can use a little improvement.

Just to be alive is enough.

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

The deepest happiness comes from having an enduring sense of purpose, one that gives our lives meaning beyond the endless pursuit of pleasure and success.

When we recognize that our thoughts are just thoughts, we can choose whether or not to follow them.

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

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

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

The essence of Buddhism is not a belief system but a systematic investigation of our experience.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophical system but a practical guide to living.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfection.

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

When we see the nature of the mind, we see that we are not our thoughts.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

The mind itself is the maker of all happiness and misery; yet beings do not understand this and blame external conditions.

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

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

The obstacle is the path.

Our emotions are like waves in the ocean. We can't stop the waves, but we can learn to surf.

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

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

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 development of wisdom does not occur in isolation but requires the cultivation of the entire Noble Eightfold Path.

The more clearly you see the arising and passing of phenomena, the less you will be attached to them.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

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

The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. Those who are possessed of the view of emptiness are said to be incurable.

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

Enlightenment is the realization that we were never really separate from one another or from all of life.

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

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

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

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

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

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

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.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who we think we should be, but about unbecoming who we are not.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

In the spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in the summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

The root of happiness is altruism — the wish to be of service to others.

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

The mind that notes and the object that is noted are both impermanent. Understanding this leads to liberation.

Genuine happiness comes from having developed basic human qualities, such as attention, emotional balance, and generosity.

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

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

The knowledge of dissolution comes when you see both the noting mind and noted object dissolving together.

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

When we understand others, we understand ourselves. When we love others, we love ourselves.

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