When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

The path is the goal. Every step of the journey is the journey.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy. This is the goal of Buddhist practice.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy, and happiness is found in benefiting others.

Meditation is not an escape from life but a way to fully engage with life.

Liberation is found in the practice, not in the theory.

The essence of Buddhist practice is to reduce our selfishness and to work for the benefit of others.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophy or a religion; it is a method of practice.

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

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.

The root of happiness is altruism — the wish to be of service to others.

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

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 purpose of life is to be happy, to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is not to be well known, cited, or powerful.

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

The essence of Buddhism is not a belief system but a systematic investigation of our experience.

When we develop patience, we find that we develop a reserve of calm and tranquility.

The practice of mindfulness begins in the small, remote cave of your unconscious mind and blossoms with the sunlight of your conscious life.

The more you understand yourself, the more you understand the world.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.