Where is the place that your original face has not yet emerged?

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

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.

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

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

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

When we understand others, we understand ourselves. When we love others, we love ourselves.

Karma is not fate but the law of moral causation, showing us that we are the architects of our own destiny.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

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

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Forgiveness is 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.

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

Maintain the state of undistractedness and distractions will fly away.

The root of suffering is attachment.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.

When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.

The most profound meditation is to think nothing at all.

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

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

Happiness is not the pursuit of an endless succession of experiences but an attitude toward life.

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

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma.

The Buddha's teaching is not about belief but about investigation, not about accepting but about examining.

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness.

Every step on the path must be with the understanding of anicca - impermanence. This is the essence of the teaching.