Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.

Ajahn Chah's Popular Quotes

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

- Ajahn Chah

If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

- Ajahn Chah

Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will …

- Ajahn Chah

If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

- Ajahn Chah

Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kind…

- Ajahn Chah

If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not e…

- Ajahn Chah

To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

- Ajahn Chah

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

- Ajahn Chah

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

- Ajahn Chah