But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

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.

It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny.

...you are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me...

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.

I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.

That's really the fundamental question we face here in the beginning of this 21st century is whether or not we believe as a nation and others believe it is possible to defeat this ideology.

When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

As good marketers, we like to tinker with things and make them better.

I hang around under the radar. Nobody is bothering me for interviews.