Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.
True change is within. Leave the outside as it is.
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
In true love, you attain freedom.
When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.
The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.
May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
Imagine a multidimensional spider’s web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.