Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time.

The essence of the spiritual journey is the uncovering of what is always already present.

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

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

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

The practice of vipassana is the study of the self. When you study physical and mental phenomena, you are studying the truth about yourself.

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

The mind that notes and the object that is noted are both impermanent. Understanding this leads to liberation.

Misery ceases to exist when we stop reacting to sensations.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

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

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

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

Real happiness comes from having an unshakable connection to the deep wellspring of peace and happiness that is not dependent on external conditions.

When you understand that all phenomena are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self, attachment naturally falls away.

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

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

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: you won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

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

The Four Noble Truths are not mere doctrinal propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our lives.

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

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

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

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

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

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

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

The essence of meditation is not something complicated or exotic. It is simply taking a break from our habitual patterns.

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

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

Through violence, you may solve one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Liberation is not found by running away from our experience but by looking deeply into it.

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

Life is available only in the present moment.

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

Wisdom is not something we have to strive to acquire. Rather, wisdom arises naturally as we open our hearts to the truth of what is.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Life is like a cup of tea. It's all in how you make it.

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

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

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

The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind.

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

Don't try to push away the darkness. Just light a lamp. The darkness will disappear by itself.

The nature of the mind is like the sky, and our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are like clouds passing through it.

Better to have one moment of genuine meditation than to perform religious activities for a thousand years.

Faith is the firm foundation, diligence the supporting pillar, and wisdom the roof of the house of practice.