“Saying whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want, is not freedom. Real freedom is not feeling the need to say these things.”

When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.

Revenge is the mode of ignorancev-vit’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.

Salt is so humble that when something goes wrong, it takes the blame, and when everything goes right, it doesn’t take credit.

No matter how much we grow, we are never free of daily chores and routines, but to be enlightened is to embrace them. The outside may look the same, but inside you are transformed.

Pride is the cause of the most damaging fall for the soul.

Pride of wealth destroys wealth, pride of strength destroys strength and in the same manner pride of knowledge destroys knowledge.

Don’t judge the moment.

Treat yourself with the same love and respect you want to show to others.

You can’t be anything you want. But you can be everything you are.

To walk down the same old path and find a new stone is to open your mind.

You are who you are when no one is watching.

Higher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.

All things are temporary and that we can’t truly own or control anything.

We think that success equals happiness, but this idea is an illusion.

A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.

Find me someone who has gone to the darkest parts of their own character where they were so close to their own self-destruction and found a way to get up and out of it, and I will bow on my knees to you. You’re my teacher.