The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

The challenge in meditation is not to eliminate thinking but to understand the nature of thought itself.

The more we understand the nature of our mind, the more we understand the nature of our world.

In meditation, we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

Compassion is not something we develop. It arises naturally as we see the truth of what is.

Wisdom is not something we have to strive to acquire. Rather, wisdom arises naturally as we open our hearts to the truth of what is.

The essence of the spiritual journey is the uncovering of what is always already present.

Suffering comes from our resistance to what is. Peace comes from our acceptance of what is.

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.

When we see the nature of the mind, we see that we are not our thoughts.

Mindfulness is the quality and power of mind that is aware of what's happening—without judgment and without interference.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

The whole path of mindfulness is about letting go. We let go of our attachment to our views, our attachment to our opinions, our attachment to our ideas.

Mindfulness is the key to the present moment. Without it we cannot see the world clearly, and we cannot make the wisest choices in our lives.

The great gift of meditation is that it returns us to the simplicity of our own being.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

The more we understand impermanence, the more we understand that we can't hold on to anything.

Freedom is not found in the absence of difficulty, but in our relationship to it.

When we understand that peace is not dependent on external conditions, we can find it in the midst of any circumstance.