In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.

All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

If only you could hear the sound of snow

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

You need to pursue purpose and time to be productive

To live a life without awakening is to leave it as it was begun.

You either make dust or eat dust.

There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category!

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.