As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

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

Concentration develops naturally through continuous noting. Don't try to force concentration to arise.

Kindness is the solution to all of life's problems.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

Past thoughts are traceless, clear, and empty. Future thoughts are unborn and fresh. The present moment abides naturally and unconstructed.

In the gap between thoughts, nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

When dharma fills your body and mind, you realize that something is missing.

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

The practice of mindfulness leads naturally to concentration. Concentration leads naturally to wisdom.

This very body is the Buddha. And this very earth the lotus paradise.

Wisdom arises when you see the true characteristics of phenomena through direct experience.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

The nature of mind is not something we need to achieve - it's something we need to recognize.

Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.

Whatever we do, we should see ourselves. Reading books doesn't show us our defilements. Watch yourself. Watch your mind.

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

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

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

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

The practice of meditation is not about achieving states of bliss but about seeing things as they really are.

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.