Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

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

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

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

When we understand others, we understand ourselves. When we love others, we love ourselves.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.

Every being has the potential of becoming a Buddha. Our true nature is Buddha nature.

Every moment is a fresh beginning. Every breath is a new chance.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Every moment of confusion is also a moment of wisdom, if we can learn to recognize it.

The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that's really swell.

Karma is not fate but the law of moral causation, showing us that we are the architects of our own destiny.

By understanding emptiness, one understands all phenomena. Without understanding emptiness, one understands nothing.

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

The practice of mindfulness leads naturally to concentration. Concentration leads naturally to wisdom.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfection.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.

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

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

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but through understanding and through letting go.

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

Real peace comes from seeing things as they really are, not as we want them to be.

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

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

If you want to understand suffering, you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

Liberation is found in the practice, not in the theory.

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

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

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

A pure mind is always full of love - real love for all others.

The ultimate revolution is the spiritual revolution, where we learn to see reality as it truly is.

The more you understand impermanence, the more you appreciate every moment.

The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

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

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

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

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

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.

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

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

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

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

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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 practice is not about achieving special states but about seeing ordinary experience with extraordinary clarity.

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

It is never too late to turn on the light.

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

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

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

When we know the truth, we become people who don't have to think much, we become people with wisdom.

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

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

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

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.