If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.

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.'

Even the most kindest person in the world, can be the most cruelest person.

You want me at your mercy, Princess. Question is, why?”“No, ” she whispered. “Question is, do I?

So . . . what is this fire river called?”“The Phlegethon, ” [Annabeth] said. “You should concentrate on going do

I may not be the most patient woman in the world, or the most glamorous, or the most athletic, but I'm right up there at the top of the line when it comes to resiliency.

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.

Time goes on even when we do not.