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

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

When you understand that all phenomena are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self, attachment naturally falls away.

The path to liberation requires both individual effort and the support of the spiritual community.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

The true path is not difficult; just avoid picking and choosing.

Devotion is the head of meditation, as is often said. When you are inspired by some spiritual teacher, you can have a very strong connection with that person, and thereby the blessings can enter.

The noting mind and the object noted appear to occur as a pair. Through concentration they are seen to arise and vanish together.

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

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

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

The past is just a memory. The future is just a dream. Be here now.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.

The water in the ocean can be rough or calm. It can be clear or murky. But the water itself doesn't mind.

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

The realization of impermanence leads not to despair but to a deeper appreciation of the preciousness of each moment.

The purpose of life is to be happy, to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is not to be well known, cited, or powerful.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

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

Equanimity is not indifference. It is the balanced state of mind.

True freedom is a freedom from the tyranny of our own thoughts and afflictive emotions.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense.