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.

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.

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.'

Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.

With the grace of prayer, we shall prevail.

It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

Need to learn a lot from God's Gift.

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.

Good Lord, I thought, squinting at the bright glare of a late-July morning. No wonder I slept through this. It was noisy with shrieking birds, and already hot.

I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.

Rachel: They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb. Annabeth: Was it hard?

New ways of seeing can disclose new things… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?