The measure of success in spiritual life is how peaceful you are.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

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

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Self-awareness is the key to freedom. The more we understand ourselves, the more we understand how to be free.

Wisdom arises when you see the true characteristics of phenomena through direct experience.

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who we think we should be, but about unbecoming who we are not.

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life.

Though the view should be as vast as the sky, keep your conduct as fine as barley flour.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

The only things that are truly mine are my actions and their results.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

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

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

The path to liberation requires both understanding and practice, both pariyatti and patipatti.

We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.

Instead of having a deep understanding of the teaching, we need a strong confidence in our teaching, which says that originally we have Buddha nature.

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

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

The view is like a lion - it cannot be led around by anything else. Meditation is like an eagle - it cannot be distracted by anything else. Action is like a madman - it is free from accepting and rejecting.

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 Buddha's teaching is not about belief but about investigation, not about accepting but about examining.

The most important factor in achieving happiness is the mind. Happiness and suffering are mental states and therefore depend on the mind.

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

The key to the Buddha's teaching is not grasping, not trying to hold onto things that are essentially impermanent and unstable.

The precious pot containing my riches becomes my teacher in the very moment it breaks.

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

The dharma is not in the books. If you want to find the dharma, look in your mind.

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.

Short moments, many times. That is the essence of meditation practice.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.