True love is not for the faint-hearted.

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

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

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

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

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

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

In my youth I studied, in my prime I practiced, now all my doubts are cleared.

Insight knowledge comes from direct experience, not from intellectual understanding.

Love is not a feeling. It's a capability.

The secret of happiness is to want what you already have.

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

People who study a lot but don't practice are like a ladle in a soup pot. It's in the soup every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup.

The door of your heart can only be opened from the inside.

Trees, mountains, and vines all exist in nature according to their own truth. They are born and die following their nature. They remain this way because that's what they are. They don't practice meditation or do anything special.

The development of wisdom does not occur in isolation but requires the cultivation of the entire Noble Eightfold Path.

The first step toward faith is to admit that we don't know everything.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that life contains suffering. The second noble truth is that the cause of suffering is craving.

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

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

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.

Enlightenment is not a state of perfection but of authenticity.

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.

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

The past is for learning from, not for living in.

Happiness is a skill that can be developed like playing an instrument or learning to read.

The root of happiness is altruism — the wish to be of service to others.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

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

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

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

The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions.

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

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

Wisdom and compassion must be developed equally and harmoniously.

Happiness is not the pursuit of an endless succession of experiences but an attitude toward life.

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.

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

The mind itself is the maker of all happiness and misery; yet beings do not understand this and blame external conditions.

In the spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in the summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you.

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

Mindfulness means keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality.

If you want to know the past, look at the present. If you want to know the future, look at the present.

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

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

The path of practice requires both faith and wisdom, both devotion and understanding.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

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

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

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

The superior person is like water, bringing benefit to all without competing.

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

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

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

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

The menu is not the meal.