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

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

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look into your present actions.

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

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

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

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

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

The goal of meditation is not to reach some highest place, but to remain in the place where you already are.

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

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.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.

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

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

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

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

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

To see directly is to be free of hope and fear. Hope and fear are like a cloud before the sun.

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce.

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.

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

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

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

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

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

When you love someone, you have to have trust and confidence. Love without trust is not yet love.

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

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

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

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

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

The one who grasps at existence suffers in samsara, while the one who grasps at non-existence will find no liberation.

The more we understand impermanence, the more we appreciate each moment of our lives.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

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

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

It is never too late to turn on the light.

Time passes unhindered. When we make ourselves better, we make the world better.

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

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

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

Don't be afraid of the future. The future is good.

In the beginning, nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.

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

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.

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

There is no difference at all between samsara and nirvana. There is no difference at all between nirvana and samsara.

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

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

Misery ceases to exist when we stop reacting to sensations.

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

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

The ocean does not reject any water; therefore it is great. The mountain does not select its stones; therefore it is great.

The mind that sees its own nature becomes free from all extremes.