The farther you enter into truth, the deeper it is.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

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

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.

Loving-kindness is not something we need to manufacture. It's a natural expression of our awakened nature.

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

The ocean does not reject any water; therefore it is great. The mountain does not select its stones; therefore it is great.

The essence of all phenomena is empty and clear like space. The nature of mind is awareness-emptiness like the sun and sky.

The Dhamma is not a collection of doctrinal formulas but a path leading to direct insight into the nature of reality.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

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.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

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.

In the beginning, nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.

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

Happiness is not about getting what you want, but wanting what you've got.

Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, just as ice and water are of the same substance.

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

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

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

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

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.

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

The mind is intrinsically empty. It's empty of all that we perceive as being intrinsically "me" and "mine."

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.

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.

The purpose of Buddhist practice is not to become a Buddhist but to awaken to the nature of reality.

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

The three characteristics - impermanence, suffering, and non-self - are not philosophical concepts but aspects of experience to be directly observed.

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

Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation, is itself the middle way.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

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

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

The secret of happiness lies not in getting what we want, but in learning to want what we already have.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

Each moment of clear seeing is a moment of freedom from the illusion of permanence, satisfaction, and self.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Our true nature is like a diamond - pure, brilliant, and indestructible. No matter how much dirt covers it, its essential nature remains unchanged.

The goal of Buddhist practice is not to escape from the world but to transform our relationship with it.

Karma is not fate but the law of moral causation, showing us that we are the architects of our own destiny.

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

Our basic nature is pure awareness that simply cognizes experience. Everything else is temporary and adventitious.

The lamp of wisdom burns constantly, illuminating the nature of mind.

When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

The Buddha taught that wealth does not bring happiness and security. The pursuit of wealth is a matter of living in balance.

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

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The menu is not the meal.

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

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

When mindfulness becomes continuous, the distinction between the observer and the observed begins to break down.

Expectations are the thieves of joy.