The development of wisdom requires both study and practice, both learning and direct experience.

For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible. For whom emptiness is not possible, nothing is possible.

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick. Every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower.

Happiness is a skill that can be developed like playing an instrument or learning to read.

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

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence.

When you generate negativity, you are the first victim of your negativity.

Life is available only in the present moment.

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

The dharma is not outside of you. Looking for it elsewhere is like placing a Buddha on your head while searching for him everywhere else.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

The noting mind and the object noted appear to occur as a pair. Through concentration they are seen to arise and vanish together.

The eye with which I see Buddha is the same eye with which Buddha sees me.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact.

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

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening.

What Zen wants us to do is to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature.

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

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

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

Love is the wish that others be happy, and compassion is the wish that they be free from suffering.

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

The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

Genuine happiness comes from having developed basic human qualities, such as attention, emotional balance, and generosity.

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.

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

Liberation is not found by running away from our experience but by looking deeply into it.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

The only way to fail at meditation is to stop doing it.

Our own life has to be our message.

Mindfulness is the key to transformation. It enables us to see our experience as it really is, free from distortion and bias.