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 highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

The whole path of mindfulness is about letting go. We let go of our attachment to our views, our attachment to our opinions, our attachment to our ideas.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

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

The deepest happiness comes from having an enduring sense of purpose, one that gives our lives meaning beyond the endless pursuit of pleasure and success.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Every step on the path must be with the understanding of anicca - impermanence. This is the essence of the teaching.

When you note pain, you are not trying to make it go away. You are trying to understand its true nature.

The true understanding is that the practice itself is enlightenment.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Through understanding emptiness, one does not become proud of one's virtues, just as one does not become proud of building a castle in the sky.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

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

Meditation is not about trying to change ourselves. Meditation is about being aware of what is.

Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat white beads.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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.

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

What we learn about the world is colored by the way we approach it.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.

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

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

In the moment of love, awareness is very strong. Use that awareness, that strength of consciousness, to look into yourself.

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is awakened.

If you want to find peace, then look at that point where you find you're dissatisfied and investigate what's really going on.

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

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.