The world is its own magic.

When dharma fills your body and mind, you realize that something is missing.

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

The way to change the world is to change your own mind.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

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

The truth of suffering is not to be feared but to be understood through direct observation.

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.

Meditation is not an escape from reality but a way to understand reality as it truly is.

The mind is like a well-forged sword - it adapts to all situations.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

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

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

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

Understanding at the intellectual level is not enough. There must be experience at the actual level.

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

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

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

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

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

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

Start from where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

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

The great gift of meditation is that it returns us to the simplicity of our own being.

What Zen wants us to do is to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature.

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

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

Real freedom is not about controlling our experience, but about being free within our experience.

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

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

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

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

The purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.

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

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

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

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Our basic nature is pure awareness that simply cognizes experience. Everything else is temporary and adventitious.

The trouble is, you think you have time.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Panic is a gateway to wisdom. When we learn to stay present with our panic, it becomes our teacher.

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

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

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

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

The dharma is not about collecting more beliefs but about becoming free from the power of belief itself.

True freedom is a freedom from the tyranny of our own thoughts and afflictive emotions.

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

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

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.

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

When we understand that peace is not dependent on external conditions, we can find it in the midst of any circumstance.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

The water in the ocean can be rough or calm. It can be clear or murky. But the water itself doesn't mind.

For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible. For whom emptiness is not possible, nothing is possible.

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.

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life.