When thoughts arise, recognize them as the display of your own awareness, like recognizing your own children in a crowd.

Each moment of clear seeing is a moment of freedom from the illusion of permanence, satisfaction, and self.

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

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

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

By understanding emptiness, one understands all phenomena. Without understanding emptiness, one understands nothing.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking.

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

The knowledge of dissolution comes when you see both the noting mind and noted object dissolving together.

The Buddha taught that wealth does not bring happiness and security. The pursuit of wealth is a matter of living in balance.

The essence of meditation is not something complicated or exotic. It is simply taking a break from our habitual patterns.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

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

Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

The goal of meditation is not to achieve a blank mind, but to gain insight into the nature of mind itself.

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

Peace in oneself, peace in the world.

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

Knowledge must be stabilized by meditation. Without meditation, knowledge is like a child in battle.

When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth.

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

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

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

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.

We need the courage to learn from our experience and the wisdom to be willing to change and grow.