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

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

The nature of life is change. The nature of change is painful. The nature of pain is temporary.

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

Real happiness comes from having an unshakable connection to the deep wellspring of peace and happiness that is not dependent on external conditions.

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.

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

When you generate negativity, you are the first victim of your negativity.

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.

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

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

The Dhamma unfolds in accordance with a definite sequence: faith, virtue, learning, generosity, wisdom, and insight.

Kindness is the solution to all of life's problems.

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

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

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

When you let go of trying to control everything, you can relax and enjoy life.

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.

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

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

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

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

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

The menu is not the meal.

Compassion is not something we develop. It arises naturally as we see the truth of what is.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

The more you give, the more you have. That's the economics of kindness.

When things fall apart and we're on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize.

If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that's all that's happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves a big deal and being really serious about it, wanting it to be like that forever. The gloriousness becomes tinged by craving and addiction. On the other hand, wretchedness--life's painful aspect--softens us up considerably. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

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 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.

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

The practice of mindfulness is the practice of being alive in the present moment.

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead, it's about becoming more fully human.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

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.

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

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

Even if you speak of 'understanding,' this understanding is not a matter of knowledge. It is what fills the entire body and mind.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

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

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

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

When the heart is still, it can be kind. When the mind is still, it can see clearly.

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

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.

The Four Noble Truths are not merely theoretical propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our experience.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

The development of wisdom requires both study and practice, both learning and direct experience.

Suffering is not the end of the story; it is the middle of the story.

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

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

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.

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

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.