During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.

Think with your whole body.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

You have to practice until you die.

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.

You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

It's very strange that WE always wish to listen good for ourselves from others, but at the same time becomes tough for us to speak good for OTHERS.

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

There is only one decisive victory: the last.

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

I always had an interest in space and the effect it had on you.

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.