Our own life has to be our message.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Buddhist practice is not to eliminate life's problems but to grow with them patiently and with compassion.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but through understanding and through letting go.

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

Meditation is the road to happiness.

Mindfulness is attention to life, and life itself is sacred.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

There are many ways to meditate. But at the heart of them all is mindfulness.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.

Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.

Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.

We need to learn to let our emotions pass through us like waves, without getting caught in their undertow.

The trouble is, you think you have time.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.