“The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.”

The heart is the only book worth reading.

The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.

We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.

If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.

We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.

In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.

Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.

Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.

Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.

You will have a steady awareness within yourself.

Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.

We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.

Its been years or maybe just months any day without you feels like eternity.

I couldn’t experience an end with you, because you have always been a beginning to something new every day.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

You need to shower at the end of the day.

Self love is not something you feel, but rather something you do each day.

You bloom one day, you do not on another. This is life and every flower doesn’t require the same amount of sunshine.

You don’t need a new year or even a new day to start fresh. Just seize the moment and make it yours.