Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.

Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.

Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.