The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.

The obstacle is the path.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Compassion is not something we develop. It arises naturally as we see the truth of what is.

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

The cultivation of loving-kindness is the thread that runs through all Buddhist teachings.

The practice of mindfulness is simple: whatever you experience, you observe and note it.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

Meditation is not about getting away from it all. It's about getting into it all.

The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge.

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

When mindfulness and concentration are strong, insight into the three characteristics naturally unfolds.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

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.

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.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

The Buddha's path is not about becoming somebody different but about becoming more and more who you really are.

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves.

The practice of ethics is not about following rules but about developing inner purity and freedom.

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

True peace comes not from controlling the world, but from letting go of control.

The practice of mindfulness is the practice of being alive in the present moment.

Observe the reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

Change is possible because there is nothing inherently permanent about our disturbing emotions.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who does not practice it.

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.