Forgiveness is not a moral issue. It's a power issue. When we hold onto grievance and resentment, we are giving our power away.

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

Mindfulness is attention to life, and life itself is sacred.

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

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

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.

The real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.

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

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.

The practice of meditation is not about achieving states of bliss but about seeing things as they really are.

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.

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

The Noble Eightfold Path is a path of training: training in ethical conduct, training in mental discipline, and training in wisdom.

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.

Generosity generates its own enthusiasm. We don't have to force ourselves to be generous; we just need to start.

The nature of the mind is like the sky, and our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are like clouds passing through it.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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

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

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

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

Ethical conduct is not a constraint upon our freedom but a condition of our freedom.

Real happiness lies within. It cannot be found in external objects or achievements.

When you understand that all phenomena are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self, attachment naturally falls away.

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

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.

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

Every being has the potential of becoming a Buddha. Our true nature is Buddha nature.

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

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophy or a religion; it is a method of practice.

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

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

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

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Sankharas are the seeds of consciousness that manifest as sensations. By observing sensations equanimously, we stop creating new sankharas.

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

The purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life.

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

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

The essence of Buddhist practice is to reduce our selfishness and to work for the benefit of others.

When I run from suffering, it follows me. When I face suffering with equanimity, it runs from me.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

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

Compassion is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.

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

The purpose of life is to be happy, to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is not to be well known, cited, or powerful.

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.

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

The Buddha's teaching is a teaching of self-reliance, of being one's own master, one's own refuge.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: you won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.