If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.

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.'

Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.

I love Kashi. I eat cereal like a little kid. I carry it in my purse.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.

Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.