Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.

no one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do what experience tells you to do and what your nerves let you do.

Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?

I grew up in a haunted castle, boys. If you've never had a ghost try to push you down the stairs, you've never lived.

Adversity does not build character,it reveals it

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

It is a world to see.

These are the moments for which we live.

Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!