In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.

Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life.

Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

You cannot grow and expand your capabilities without running the risk of failure.

Canelo's a different breed. A lot of people think because of the way I made Canelo look, they're going to be able to do the same thing, but that's not true. He's a strong fighter.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.