From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

If only you could hear the sound of snow

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create their wealth in their nation. They rather think they must be given.

The stranger smiled at her. "Humanity has found a cure to a disease they never new existed.

I kind of want to see Mara Crucio their asses.

Since the soul in me is dead, Better save the skin.

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.

[Jodie Foster] is one of my favorite actors and people in the business.

I don't believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action.