All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.

And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.

He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

I think the one thing of me that they really wanted to capitalize on is my dorkiness

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.