True peace comes not from controlling the world, but from letting go of control.

Wisdom and compassion must be developed equally and harmoniously.

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.

The dharma is not outside of you. Looking for it elsewhere is like placing a Buddha on your head while searching for him everywhere else.

Our defilements are like tame tigers. If you feed them, they're tame. If you stop feeding them, they'll eat you up.

Altruism is not a luxury, it is a necessity for the survival of humanity.

The teaching of the Buddha is based on two truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. Without understanding the relationship between these two, the deeper meaning of the Buddha's teaching cannot be understood.

Better to have one moment of genuine meditation than to perform religious activities for a thousand years.

Dependent origination is not a theory about the origin of the world but a teaching that shows how suffering originates in dependence on our own mental processes.

The Buddha's teaching challenges us to master the art of living, to live in a way that leads to the extinction of suffering.

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

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

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

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

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

The treasure house within you contains everything, and you are free to use it. You don't need to seek outside.

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

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

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

Enlightenment is not a state of perfection but of authenticity.

Real freedom is not about controlling our experience, but about being free within our experience.

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

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

We need the courage to learn from our experience and the wisdom to be willing to change and grow.

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

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.

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

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The three characteristics - impermanence, suffering, and non-self - are not philosophical concepts but aspects of experience to be directly observed.

Our true nature is like a diamond - pure, brilliant, and indestructible. No matter how much dirt covers it, its essential nature remains unchanged.

The practice of mindfulness leads naturally to concentration. Concentration leads naturally to wisdom.

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

External seeking only leads to exhaustion. When you imitate others, you lose your own authenticity.

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

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

The practice of vipassana is the study of the self. When you study physical and mental phenomena, you are studying the truth about yourself.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

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

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

What we learn about the world is colored by the way we approach it.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

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

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

The world is its own magic.