The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

The grass is greener where you water it.

Real peace comes from seeing things as they really are, not as we want them to be.

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

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

The nature of the mind is like the sky, and our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are like clouds passing through it.

The mind is the forerunner of all things. Our present life is the result of our past thoughts, and our future life will be the result of our present thoughts.

Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

The object of meditation and the mind which knows it must be noted as they occur. If they are not noted, desire arises and disturbs concentration.

Peace in oneself, peace in the world.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

The treasure house within you contains everything, and you are free to use it. You don't need to seek outside.

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

The Four Noble Truths are not merely theoretical propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our experience.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Where there is great doubt, there is great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.

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 only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense.

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

The true mark of a spiritual practitioner is that your own behavior is better, not that you can criticize others well.

The great gift of meditation is that it returns us to the simplicity of our own being.

Don't try to push away the darkness. Just light a lamp. The darkness will disappear by itself.

The whole path of mindfulness is about letting go. We let go of our attachment to our views, our attachment to our opinions, our attachment to our ideas.

The Buddha's teaching is a teaching of self-reliance, of being one's own master, one's own refuge.

May all beings be happy, be peaceful, be liberated.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.