The ultimate revolution is the spiritual revolution, where we learn to see reality as it truly is.

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.

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

Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

When we know the truth, we become people who don't have to think much, we become people with wisdom.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

The more you meditate, the more you understand yourself and the better friend you become to yourself.

True happiness is not about getting rid of all our problems, but about changing our relationship to them.

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

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

The path to liberation is a gradual path of self-discipline, self-development, and self-transformation.

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

The truth of suffering is not to be feared but to be understood through direct observation.

True happiness is not found through the multiplication of desires but through their simplification.

Change is possible because there is nothing inherently permanent about our disturbing emotions.

The teaching of the Buddha is based on two truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. Without understanding the relationship between these two, the deeper meaning of the Buddha's teaching cannot be understood.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophy or a religion; it is a method of practice.

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

The Buddha taught that wealth does not bring happiness and security. The pursuit of wealth is a matter of living in balance.

When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that's really swell.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

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

In the monastery of your body, the monk of your mind must stay in retreat.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Those who understand interdependent origination understand suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that's all that's happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves a big deal and being really serious about it, wanting it to be like that forever. The gloriousness becomes tinged by craving and addiction. On the other hand, wretchedness--life's painful aspect--softens us up considerably. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

Those who know emptiness, know impermanence. Those who know impermanence, know non-self. Those who know non-self, know peace.

The menu is not the meal.