The supreme path is not to fabricate anything. The supreme meditation is not to be distracted.

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

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

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

The perfect moment is this one, not the one you're waiting for.

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

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

The signs of practice are not in extraordinary experiences but in extraordinary awareness of ordinary experiences.

Meditation is not about trying to change your experience; it's about changing your relationship to your experience.

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

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

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

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

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

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

True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through cultivation of altruism, of love, of compassion.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

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.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

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.

Kindness is the solution to all of life's problems.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Personal experience is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

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 nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.