To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

It is not about how much activity we are capable of doing but how we are performing the activity that makes the difference.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.

Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie?

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

When you become thoughtless, then you can see, feel Reality.

There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.