The way we look at the world is the way the world looks.

The menu is not the meal.

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.

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

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

The obstacle is the path.

The nature of all things is like a magical illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection of the moon in water.

Freedom is not found in the absence of difficulty, but in our relationship to it.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

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

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

The path to liberation is a gradual path of self-discipline, self-development, and self-transformation.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

Concentration develops naturally through continuous noting. Don't try to force concentration to arise.

The mind is intrinsically empty. It's empty of all that we perceive as being intrinsically "me" and "mine."

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

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

The force of the kindness of others is so strong, we can't possibly measure it.

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

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

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.

The way is basically perfect. It is not a matter of practice or enlightenment.

The nature of mind is not something we need to achieve - it's something we need to recognize.

Those who know emptiness, know impermanence. Those who know impermanence, know non-self. Those who know non-self, know peace.

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

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

In meditation, we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

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

Each moment of noting is a moment of purification, a moment of cultivating the path.

The dharma is not outside of you. Looking for it elsewhere is like placing a Buddha on your head while searching for him everywhere else.

The cave I live in is empty and so is my mind. I live simply and at ease.

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.