The more we understand impermanence, the more we understand that we can't hold on to anything.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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

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

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

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

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

Just to be alive is enough.

In meditation, we're not trying to get rid of thoughts but to recognize their true nature.

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

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

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

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

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

Zen is not necessarily against words, but it is well aware of their limitations.

The most important things in our practice are our physical posture and our way of breathing.

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

Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

The essence of all phenomena is empty and clear like space. The nature of mind is awareness-emptiness like the sun and sky.

The dharma is not in the books. If you want to find the dharma, look in your mind.

When mindfulness is weak, defilements are strong; when mindfulness is strong, defilements are weak.

The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact.

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

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

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

Meditation is not an escape from life but a way to fully engage with life.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

The menu is not the meal.

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