For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.

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.

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

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

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.