If you learn to enjoy waiting, you don't have to wait to enjoy.

The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.

Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.

If you are under control, you lose the danger of glimpsing an unknown realm.

What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.

I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

Memory... is an internal rumor.

It only takes for one person to remind you that you are special, and then your whole life is changed.

I never fear famous politicians, never fear the big parties, I only fear the people do not understand.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.

I refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what I can achieve.

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.