If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest.

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.

In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest

You don't ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it.

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you.

I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe

We represent in ourselves organized terror - this must be said very clearly.

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

The harder it is, the better you become.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.