Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.

Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But self-discipline is different. It's the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.