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

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

The most important factor in achieving happiness is the mind. Happiness and suffering are mental states and therefore depend on the mind.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

In the beginning, nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.

Understanding at the intellectual level is not enough. There must be experience at the actual level.

Mindfulness is being aware of what's going on, not trying to control what's going on.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The only way to experience truth is to look within, to observe oneself.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

The essence of Buddhist practice is to reduce our selfishness and to work for the benefit of others.

The Noble Eightfold Path is not a path of mere intellectual understanding but a path of practice, of inner transformation.

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

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

The practice of Dharma is a constant battle within oneself.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Every thought, every word, and every action leaves an imprint on our mind.

The true path is not difficult; just avoid picking and choosing.

Metta (loving-kindness) becomes truly effective only when it arises from a peaceful mind, a pure mind, a balanced mind.

To what shall I compare this life? It is like a boat that left at dawn, leaving no trace.

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

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

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

The mind is the source of all happiness and the source of all suffering.

In the spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in the summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you.

When we develop patience, we find that we develop a reserve of calm and tranquility.

When things fall apart and we're on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

Sankharas are the seeds of consciousness that manifest as sensations. By observing sensations equanimously, we stop creating new sankharas.

Be happy at the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

The practice of mindfulness transforms the mind from a place of suffering into an instrument of enlightenment.