The practitioner and practice are like fire and wood. The more you practice, the more you burn.

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

The key to the Buddha's teaching is not grasping, not trying to hold onto things that are essentially impermanent and unstable.

The force of the kindness of others is so strong, we can't possibly measure it.

Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer evil with good. Conquer stinginess with giving. Conquer deceit with truth.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

We need to learn to let our emotions pass through us like waves, without getting caught in their undertow.

May all beings be happy, be peaceful, be liberated.

In Zen there must be satori; there must be a general mental upheaval which destroys the old accumulations of intellection and lays down the foundation for a new life.

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

The purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.

When dharma fills your body and mind, you realize that something is missing.

When things fall apart and we're on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who we think we should be, but about unbecoming who we are not.

The eye with which I see Buddha is the same eye with which Buddha sees me.

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

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

Where there is great doubt, there is great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.

Just to be alive is enough.

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

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

When the heart is still, it can be kind. When the mind is still, it can see clearly.

Suffering comes from our resistance to what is. Peace comes from our acceptance of what is.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

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

Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is the space of possibility.

The rising and falling of the abdomen is not the main object. The main object is to develop mindfulness, concentration, and insight.

In meditation, we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

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

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

The root of suffering is attachment.