The obstacle is the path.

Short moments, many times. That is the essence of meditation practice.

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

Those who grasp at things as truly existent are like someone trying to catch the reflection of the moon in water.

The mind is like a well-forged sword - it adapts to all situations.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

The nature of life is change. The nature of change is painful. The nature of pain is temporary.

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

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.

Mindfulness is being aware of what is happening right now, without wishing it were different.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

The six realms of existence are like a dream, why build a prison for yourself?

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

When you love someone, you have to have trust and confidence. Love without trust is not yet love.

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

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past could have been any different.

Concentration and insight are like two wings of a bird: both are necessary for the flight to liberation.

Enlightenment is the realization that we were never really separate from one another or from all of life.

Meditation is not about achieving anything. It's about letting go of everything.

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

Each breath is a new beginning, a fresh opportunity to awaken.

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

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

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

The mind itself is the maker of all happiness and misery; yet beings do not understand this and blame external conditions.

Don't expect or desire anything. Just keep noting whatever arises in the present moment.

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

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

Wisdom is not about accumulating knowledge, but about seeing through all knowledge.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.