One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

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

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

Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.

I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

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