Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

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.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

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

No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.