A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don’t do that with any other artists.

I've come to learn, and to establish mine in that same place i come from. Staying in my school place makes me always a student.

Remember, you are the light of love in the darkness.

Lyon are the same away from home as they are at home, they have the same way of playing.

There are people who organise the contest, winners, losers, and people who benefit from the contest taking place.

Freedom exists only with power.

Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.

When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!