Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

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.'

Self-judgment clouds our mind with inescapable indictments.

When you lift up others, you rise up together.

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square.

You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself

If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position… to make all the difference in the world.

DRS is like giving Picasso Photoshop.

I worried that people wouldn't like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.

As Shakespeare said, there's nothin' cooler than droppin' the 'g's off of gerunds!