The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

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.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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 both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

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

Compassion is a verb.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

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

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophical system but a practical guide to living.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have - it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as your capacity to ground your attention in the present moment.

Don't expect or desire anything. Just keep noting whatever arises in the present moment.

The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. Those who are possessed of the view of emptiness are said to be incurable.

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.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.

Time passes unhindered. When we make ourselves better, we make the world better.

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

The state of mind that exists when you sit in the right posture is, itself, enlightenment.

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

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

Peace is not found by changing the world, but by changing your attitude to the world.

Face your own anger and you will be free from anger. Face your own fears and you will be free from fear.

Enlightenment is the realization that we were never really separate from one another or from all of life.

Whoever told you that practice and enlightenment are separate?

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

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.

Mindfulness is not just bare attention but wise attention that leads to understanding and insight.

Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.

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