Life is nothing but a continuous chain of sensations. Pleasant or unpleasant, observe them objectively.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Self-awareness is the key to freedom. The more we understand ourselves, the more we understand how to be free.

The entire path is a path of self-responsibility. Nobody else can walk it for you.

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.

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

Real happiness lies within. It cannot be found in external objects or achievements.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

Where is the place that your original face has not yet emerged?

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

Each of you is perfect the way you are... and you can use a little improvement.

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.

The development of wisdom requires both study and practice, both learning and direct experience.

In the monastery of your body, the monk of your mind must stay in retreat.

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.

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

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

The mind that notes and the object that is noted are both impermanent. Understanding this leads to liberation.

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

Meditation is not about trying to change your experience; it's about changing your relationship to your experience.

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

External seeking only leads to exhaustion. When you imitate others, you lose your own authenticity.

Every moment is a fresh beginning. Every breath is a new chance.

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

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

Life is available only in the present moment.

Love is the wish that others be happy, and compassion is the wish that they be free from suffering.

To see directly is to be free of hope and fear. Hope and fear are like a cloud before the sun.

Your own treasure house contains everything you need; why search outside?

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

The greatest obstacle to meditation is our expectation about what it should be.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who does not practice it.