We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more