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

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

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

The way we look at the world is the way the world looks.

The measure of success in spiritual life is how peaceful you are.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

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

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

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.

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

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

The past is just a memory. The future is just a dream. Be here now.

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

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Observe the reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

The precious pot containing my riches becomes my teacher in the very moment it breaks.

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

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

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

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

The key to transformation is not to fight with our experience but to open to it with awareness.

The more clearly you see the arising and passing of phenomena, the less you will be attached to them.

Equanimity is not indifference. It is the balanced mind that sees things clearly without reaction.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

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

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

It is never too late to turn on the light.

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

The entire path is a path of self-responsibility. Nobody else can walk it for you.

The highest mantra is to be without deception. The highest medicine is to have few desires. The highest meditation is not to be attached.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking.

Just to be alive is enough.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the "support," of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

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

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

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

The menu is not the meal.

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

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

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

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

The path to liberation requires both understanding and practice, both pariyatti and patipatti.

Real peace comes from seeing things as they really are, not as we want them to be.

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.

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.