As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

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.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?

We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.

Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you're going to have.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

She wanted me to betray you guys, and I was like, 'Pfft, right, I'm gonna listen to a face in the potty sludge'.

You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.