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

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

Knowledge must be stabilized by meditation. Without meditation, knowledge is like a child in battle.

The best way to solve a problem is to help someone else solve their problem.

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

As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.

When dharma fills your body and mind, you realize that something is missing.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Many people think excitement is happiness... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.

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

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

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

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

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

The deepest happiness comes from having an enduring sense of purpose, one that gives our lives meaning beyond the endless pursuit of pleasure and success.

In the gap between thoughts, nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

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

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

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

The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort.

The nature of all things is like a magical illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection of the moon in water.

Anxiety and excitement are the same emotion. The only difference is our attitude toward the experience.

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.

Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, just as ice and water are of the same substance.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

If you want to find peace, then look at that point where you find you're dissatisfied and investigate what's really going on.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The signs of practice are not in extraordinary experiences but in extraordinary awareness of ordinary experiences.

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

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

Just observe whatever arises. Don't try to create anything, and don't reject anything.

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