The four foundations of mindfulness are not separate practices but different aspects of the same practice of clear awareness.

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

Wisdom is not something we have to strive to acquire. Rather, wisdom arises naturally as we open our hearts to the truth of what is.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that life contains suffering. The second noble truth is that the cause of suffering is craving.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

The law of nature is the law of cause and effect. As you sow, so shall you reap.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that's all that's happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves a big deal and being really serious about it, wanting it to be like that forever. The gloriousness becomes tinged by craving and addiction. On the other hand, wretchedness--life's painful aspect--softens us up considerably. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

Mindfulness is not just bare attention but wise attention that leads to understanding and insight.

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

The restraint of the senses is not a matter of suppression but of wise attention to our experience.

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

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.

The first step toward faith is to admit that we don't know everything.

Real freedom is not about controlling our experience, but about being free within our experience.

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

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

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

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.

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

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.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

The goal of Buddhist practice is not to escape from the world but to transform our relationship with it.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

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