For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

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-discipline, self-realization and self-reliance.

I am pleased with the fitness that I have.

Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.

Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally.

Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort have created a biblically sound course that will not only motivate Christians; it will equip them to fulfill the Great Commission.

I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.

The only way to move forward on this is to ask yourself, "What would happen if everything I thought was 'wrong' was actually 'right'?"

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.