The practice is simply this: keep coming back to your breath during the day. This will give your mind a steadiness and your life a balance.

The practice of Dharma is a constant battle within oneself.

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.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

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

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

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

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

The time of the past becomes the present, the time of the present becomes the future, the time of the future becomes the present, and the time of the present becomes the past.

In the moment of love, awareness is very strong. Use that awareness, that strength of consciousness, to look into yourself.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

The yogi's joy is in the solitude of mountains, where all distractions naturally dissolve into emptiness.

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world.

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

The Buddha and all sentient beings are nothing but expressions of the one mind. There is nothing else.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

Every moment is a fresh beginning. Every breath is a new chance.

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

Liberation is not found by running away from our experience but by looking deeply into it.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Metta (loving-kindness) becomes truly effective only when it arises from a peaceful mind, a pure mind, a balanced mind.

When the mind is ready to understand, the truth will come to meet it.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

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

The goal of Buddhist practice is not to escape from the world but to transform our relationship with it.

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

Wisdom is not about accumulating knowledge, but about seeing through all knowledge.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

Every moment of confusion is also a moment of wisdom, if we can learn to recognize it.