Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

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

Wisdom is not about accumulating knowledge, but about seeing through all knowledge.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

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

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

The world is its own magic.

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

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.

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

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

Change is the nature of every phenomenon. Accept this truth and you will live a happy life.

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense.

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.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

The key to the Buddha's teaching is not grasping, not trying to hold onto things that are essentially impermanent and unstable.

The one who grasps at existence suffers in samsara, while the one who grasps at non-existence will find no liberation.

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.

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

The past is gone, the future is not yet here. Live in the present moment with awareness.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

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

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

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

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

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

The path to liberation is through understanding the true nature of mind and matter through direct observation.

The secret of happiness lies not in getting what we want, but in learning to want what we already have.

The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery.

The true mark of a spiritual practitioner is that your own behavior is better, not that you can criticize others well.

Enlightenment is not a state of perfection but of authenticity.

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

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

The spiritual journey begins with the recognition that beneath our surface happiness there lies a deep inner pain.

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

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.

Since all things are empty of inherent existence, anything is possible. If things had inherent existence, nothing would be possible.

The mind is like a room with many windows. Open them all and let the fresh air in.

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

The practice of Buddhism is fundamentally a practice of expanding our happiness and diminishing our suffering.

Without darkness, there is no light. Without the path, there is no arrival.

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.

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

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

The most important thing in life is to know death is coming and to prepare for it.

Love is the wish that others be happy, and compassion is the wish that they be free from suffering.

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past could have been any different.

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.

The only way to experience truth is to look within, to observe oneself.

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

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

The root of suffering is attachment.

Equanimity is not indifference. It is the balanced state of mind.

Each of you is perfect the way you are... and you can use a little improvement.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.