Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

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.'

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

Oh, yeah, that goatee is really unattractive. That definitely belongs on a much fatter man.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.