The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

The snow lion stays in the mountains, and the snow lion's ways are the snow lion's ways.

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

May all beings be happy, be peaceful, be liberated.

In my youth I studied, in my prime I practiced, now all my doubts are cleared.

Your mind is like a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

Our defilements are like tame tigers. If you feed them, they're tame. If you stop feeding them, they'll eat you up.

When you realize the emptiness of all phenomena, compassion will arise in your heart for all sentient beings who do not understand this truth.

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but through understanding and through letting go.

When we look directly at our thoughts, they dissolve like bubbles in water.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

The more you give, the more you have. That's the economics of kindness.

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

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

Whoever told you that practice and enlightenment are separate?

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness.

Sticking with uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.

Those who understand interdependent origination understand suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

Peace in oneself, peace in the world.

Where there is great doubt, there is great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

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

Change is the nature of every phenomenon. Accept this truth and you will live a happy life.

The Buddha and all sentient beings are nothing but expressions of the one mind. There is nothing else.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

The way is basically perfect. It is not a matter of practice or enlightenment.

The highest mantra is to be without deception. The highest medicine is to have few desires. The highest meditation is not to be attached.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.