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.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

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

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

The path is not about perfecting ourselves, but about perfecting our love.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

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

Meditation is the road to happiness.

The obstacle is the path.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

Although all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, they function perfectly well.

Through understanding emptiness, one does not become proud of one's virtues, just as one does not become proud of building a castle in the sky.

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the "support," of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

The ultimate purpose of Buddhism is to serve and benefit humanity.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

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.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

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

Personal experience is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

Enlightenment is the realization that we were never really separate from one another or from all of life.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

The signs of practice are not in extraordinary experiences but in extraordinary awareness of ordinary experiences.

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

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

When we see the nature of the mind, we see that we are not our thoughts.

When you practice zazen you should not try to attain anything. You should just sit in the complete calmness of your mind and not rely on anything.

The door of your heart can only be opened from the inside.

The Buddha taught that wealth does not bring happiness and security. The pursuit of wealth is a matter of living in balance.

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

The more you meditate, the more you understand yourself and the better friend you become to yourself.

The practice is like peeling an onion. Layer after layer of delusion is removed through continuous mindfulness.