Meditation is not about achieving anything. It's about letting go of everything.

Each moment of noting is a moment of purification, a moment of cultivating the path.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.

Real happiness lies within. It cannot be found in external objects or achievements.

The essence of the teaching is emptiness and compassion. Without emptiness, compassion can become attachment. Without compassion, emptiness can become cold and distant.

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

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

The Buddha's teachings are not about abandoning our lives but about bringing the fullness of our attention to our lives.

The nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.

Meditation is the road to happiness.

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.

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

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

Trees, mountains, and vines all exist in nature according to their own truth. They are born and die following their nature. They remain this way because that's what they are. They don't practice meditation or do anything special.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

What we learn about the world is colored by the way we approach it.

The essence of mind is empty like space; yet it contains all things, like a mirror.

When things fall apart and we're on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Happiness is a skill that can be developed like playing an instrument or learning to read.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

The way to overcome anger is to be too busy being kind to have time to be angry.

Each moment of clear seeing is a moment of freedom from the illusion of permanence, satisfaction, and self.

Kindness is the solution to all of life's problems.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Zen proposes its solution by directly appealing to facts of personal experience and not to book-knowledge.

The practice of ethics is not about following rules but about developing inner purity and freedom.

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

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

The door of your heart can only be opened from the inside.