If only you could hear the sound of snow

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?

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.

I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

If you're constantly hamstrung by worry that people aren't going to like it, you can't do your job.

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

The person that angers you most, teaches you best

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.

I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.