When we understand that peace is not dependent on external conditions, we can find it in the midst of any circumstance.

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

Start from where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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

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.

The practice of Buddhism is fundamentally a practice of expanding our happiness and diminishing our suffering.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

When you see forms or hear sounds fully engaging body-and-mind, you intuit dharma intimately.

Meditation is not about trying to change ourselves. Meditation is about being aware of what is.

The practitioner and practice are like fire and wood. The more you practice, the more you burn.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

The stages of insight unfold naturally when mindfulness is continuous. There is no need to desire them or try to make them happen.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. Those who are possessed of the view of emptiness are said to be incurable.

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

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay.

Life is an art, and like perfect art it should be self-forgetting.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

The defilements of the mind are temporary visitors. Pure awareness is your true home.

All beings by nature are Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

Everybody has the light of Buddha within, but they don't look for it.

The Buddha's teaching challenges us to master the art of living, to live in a way that leads to the extinction of suffering.

The teaching of the Buddha is based on two truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. Without understanding the relationship between these two, the deeper meaning of the Buddha's teaching cannot be understood.

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

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

Liberation is found in the practice, not in the theory.

Knowledge must be stabilized by meditation. Without meditation, knowledge is like a child in battle.