The practice of vipassana is the study of the self. When you study physical and mental phenomena, you are studying the truth about yourself.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

The mind is like a well-forged sword - it adapts to all situations.

The practice of metta begins with oneself, for only when we have developed loving-kindness towards ourselves can we truly offer it to others.

The nature of everything is empty and clear, and the mind is beyond both existence and nonexistence.

To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.

Zen is not necessarily against words, but it is well aware of their limitations.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery.

Insight knowledge comes from direct experience, not from intellectual understanding.

The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort.

The Dhamma unfolds in accordance with a definite sequence: faith, virtue, learning, generosity, wisdom, and insight.

The most profound meditation is to think nothing at all.

Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself.

The Buddha's teaching is a middle way between all extremes, between eternalism and annihilationism, between self-indulgence and self-torture.

Our true nature is like a diamond - pure, brilliant, and indestructible. No matter how much dirt covers it, its essential nature remains unchanged.

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

To live – is that not enough? To love – is that not everything?

Time passes unhindered. When we make ourselves better, we make the world better.

Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.

The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind.

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

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

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

Meditation is like catching a fish. If you try to catch it quickly, you'll miss it. If you have patience and know how to wait, the fish will come.

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

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

The Noble Eightfold Path is not a path of mere intellectual understanding but a path of practice, of inner transformation.

Mindfulness is being aware of what is happening right now, without wishing it were different.

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