The mind is the source of all happiness and the source of all suffering.

The mind that sees its own nature becomes free from all extremes.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

The cultivation of loving-kindness is the thread that runs through all Buddhist teachings.

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.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

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

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

The heart of the path is quite simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are.

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

The time of the past becomes the present, the time of the present becomes the future, the time of the future becomes the present, and the time of the present becomes the past.

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

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

The law of nature is the law of cause and effect. As you sow, so shall you reap.

People who study a lot but don't practice are like a ladle in a soup pot. It's in the soup every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup.

The deepest happiness comes from having an enduring sense of purpose, one that gives our lives meaning beyond the endless pursuit of pleasure and success.

If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

The way is basically perfect. It is not a matter of practice or enlightenment.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

Life is available only in the present moment.

The Buddha's teaching is not about belief but about investigation, not about accepting but about examining.

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

The Buddha and all sentient beings are nothing but expressions of the one mind. There is nothing else.

The path of practice requires both faith and wisdom, both devotion and understanding.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

Birth and death are neither two things nor one thing. Life is not an appearance, death is not a disappearance.

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead, it's about becoming more fully human.

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

Everybody has the light of Buddha within, but they don't look for it.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Right View is not just a matter of intellectual understanding but of seeing things as they really are.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

The nature of mind is like a mirror. It is not affected by whatever appears in it, yet it never fails to reflect everything perfectly.

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

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.

The path of insight is a path of discovery, not a path of creation. We are discovering what is already there.

The dharma is not about collecting more beliefs but about becoming free from the power of belief itself.

Life is an art, and like perfect art it should be self-forgetting.

The nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.

The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

The practice of ethics is not about following rules but about developing inner purity and freedom.

Suffering is not the end of the story; it is the middle of the story.

Change is possible because there is nothing inherently permanent about our disturbing emotions.

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

The more you understand impermanence, the more you appreciate every moment.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

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

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.