When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

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

The true path is not difficult; just avoid picking and choosing.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

The more we understand our mind, the more we understand the world.

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

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

The Buddha's teachings are not about abandoning our lives but about bringing the fullness of our attention to our lives.

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

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

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

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.

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

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

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

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.

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

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

Misery ceases to exist when we stop reacting to sensations.

Right practice is steady practice. Whether you feel lazy or diligent, just keep practicing.

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

To what shall I compare this life? It is like a boat that left at dawn, leaving no trace.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

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

When mindfulness and concentration are strong, insight into the three characteristics naturally unfolds.

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

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

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

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

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

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

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

The world is its own magic.

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.

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

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things.

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

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

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

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

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

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.

When we see the nature of the mind, we see that we are not our thoughts.

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

The essence of Buddhist practice is to bring everything onto the path. Every experience becomes an opportunity for awakening.

The trouble is, you think you have time.

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

Just to be alive is enough.

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that buddhas recognize their nature while sentient beings fail to recognize it.

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

The snow lion stays in the mountains, and the snow lion's ways are the snow lion's ways.

The path of insight is a path of discovery, not a path of creation. We are discovering what is already there.

Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

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.

Enlightenment is not about becoming something special, but about realizing what we already are.

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

It is never too late to turn on the light.

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