When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.

I can't say it strongly enough; to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation

There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

Learning to live is learning to let go.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.