In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

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.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young.

I love sunglasses, I have all shapes and colors.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

Some friends leave footprints in your heart

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.