The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.

Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.

The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself. We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us. We no longer demand that sensory consciousness be anything other than an existing condition that we can use skillfully according to time and place.

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.

Whatever you think you are, that's not what you are.

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.