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

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

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

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

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophical system but a practical guide to living.

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

The Buddha's teaching challenges us to master the art of living, to live in a way that leads to the extinction of suffering.

This very body is the Buddha. And this very earth the lotus paradise.

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

Ethical conduct is not a constraint upon our freedom but a condition of our freedom.

If you want to know the past, look at the present. If you want to know the future, look at the present.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

The realization of impermanence leads not to despair but to a deeper appreciation of the preciousness of each moment.

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

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

The past is for learning from, not for living in.

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.

Through continuous mindfulness practice, the true nature of physical and mental phenomena becomes clear.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: you won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

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

Real freedom is not about controlling our experience, but about being free within our experience.

The Dhamma unfolds in accordance with a definite sequence: faith, virtue, learning, generosity, wisdom, and insight.

The six realms of existence are like a dream, why build a prison for yourself?

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

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.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma.

Peace is not found by changing the world, but by changing your attitude to the world.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

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

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

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that buddhas recognize their nature while sentient beings fail to recognize it.

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge.

When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth.

There is no difference at all between samsara and nirvana. There is no difference at all between nirvana and samsara.

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

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

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

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.

The spiritual journey begins with the recognition that beneath our surface happiness there lies a deep inner pain.

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

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.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

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

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

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

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

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Just to be alive is enough.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness.

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

The Four Noble Truths are not merely theoretical propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our experience.