All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

If only you could hear the sound of snow

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

Wherever man did not settle, the world was not owned.It was not wanted.In time of course this was bound to change, for there is never enough it seems.

It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.

And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

the 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value.