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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Peace is not found by changing the world, but by changing your attitude to the world.

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

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.

When the mind is ready to understand, the truth will come to meet it.

The more we understand impermanence, the more we understand that we can't hold on to anything.

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

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

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

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

The Buddha's teachings are not a religion, but a science of mind.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that buddhas recognize their nature while sentient beings fail to recognize it.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening.

The menu is not the meal.

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

The most important thing in life is to know death is coming and to prepare for it.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

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

Enlightenment is not a state of perfection but of authenticity.

The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge.

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

The development of insight is gradual, but the realization of truth is sudden.

Loving-kindness is not something we need to manufacture. It's a natural expression of our awakened nature.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but through understanding and through letting go.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery.

The only things that are truly mine are my actions and their results.

Don't try to push away the darkness. Just light a lamp. The darkness will disappear by itself.

To be attached to a thing means that mind and the thing meet and grow into each other.

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

The more you understand yourself, the more you understand the world.

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

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

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.

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

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

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

Craving and aversion are the roots of suffering. Observe them with equanimity.

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

Your own treasure house contains everything you need; why search outside?

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

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

The ultimate revolution is the spiritual revolution, where we learn to see reality as it truly is.

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

Every step on the path must be with the understanding of anicca - impermanence. This is the essence of the teaching.

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

The spiritual journey begins with the recognition that beneath our surface happiness there lies a deep inner pain.

The mind is the forerunner of all things. Our present life is the result of our past thoughts, and our future life will be the result of our present thoughts.

The root of suffering is attachment.

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

The practice of Buddhism is fundamentally a practice of expanding our happiness and diminishing our suffering.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Panic, anxiety, and stress are not obstacles to the practice. They are the path to wisdom and compassion.

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

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.