If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

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.'

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

I live every day as if I can die any moment.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

safety and love are both illusions!

I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.

Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

I'm not going to beat somebody up for talking smack to me, especially another skater.

I think if you're in favor of World War III, you have your candidate. You know, here's the thing.