When you realize the emptiness of all phenomena, compassion will arise in your heart for all sentient beings who do not understand this truth.

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

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

Since all things are empty of inherent existence, anything is possible. If things had inherent existence, nothing would be possible.

All experiences are preceded by mind, led by mind, made by mind. Speak or act with a corrupted mind, and suffering follows as the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox.

Through understanding emptiness, one does not become proud of one's virtues, just as one does not become proud of building a castle in the sky.

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

Those who grasp at things as truly existent are like someone trying to catch the reflection of the moon in water.

The teaching of the Buddha is based on two truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. Without understanding the relationship between these two, the deeper meaning of the Buddha's teaching cannot be understood.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible. For whom emptiness is not possible, nothing is possible.

The person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

Those who know emptiness, know impermanence. Those who know impermanence, know non-self. Those who know non-self, know peace.

The root of all suffering is ignorance. The antidote to ignorance is wisdom that realizes emptiness.

By understanding emptiness, one understands all phenomena. Without understanding emptiness, one understands nothing.

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.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

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.

The one who grasps at existence suffers in samsara, while the one who grasps at non-existence will find no liberation.

Although all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, they function perfectly well.