A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.

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.'

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

You think I'm stupid. Stay out of my way. You think I'm stupid.

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.

You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.

My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.