Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

The person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

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

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

The practice of Buddhism is fundamentally a practice of expanding our happiness and diminishing our suffering.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

The Noble Eightfold Path is a path of training: training in ethical conduct, training in mental discipline, and training in wisdom.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

The more you understand yourself, the more you understand the world.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.

The nature of the mind is like the sky, and our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are like clouds passing through it.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

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

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer evil with good. Conquer stinginess with giving. Conquer deceit with truth.

To see directly is to be free of hope and fear. Hope and fear are like a cloud before the sun.

The one who grasps at existence suffers in samsara, while the one who grasps at non-existence will find no liberation.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.

The dharma is not about collecting more beliefs but about becoming free from the power of belief itself.

The goal of meditation is not to reach some highest place, but to remain in the place where you already are.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Liberation is found in the practice, not in the theory.

Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is the space of possibility.

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are not our thoughts.

In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.

Where is the place that your original face has not yet emerged?

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Face your own anger and you will be free from anger. Face your own fears and you will be free from fear.

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

The quality of every moment depends on the state of our minds.