Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

To be attached to a thing means that mind and the thing meet and grow into each other.

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

The mind itself is the maker of all happiness and misery; yet beings do not understand this and blame external conditions.

In Zen there must be satori; there must be a general mental upheaval which destroys the old accumulations of intellection and lays down the foundation for a new life.

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.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Each of you is perfect the way you are... and you can use a little improvement.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher.

Meditation is the road to happiness.

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

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfection.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, or change.

Enlightenment is not a state of perfection but of authenticity.

Love is the wish that others be happy, and compassion is the wish that they be free from suffering.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

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.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

The path is the goal. Every step of the journey is the journey.

The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge.

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.

The path of insight is a path of discovery, not a path of creation. We are discovering what is already there.