As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

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.'

Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.

It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe.

The best way to go, is just to do it" - Uncle Lanny

I loved you instantly, because angels can love instantly.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.

Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.

I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide.