In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood

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.'

Suddenly, he had to ask himself, was love at first sight actually possible

I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn't take my eyes off Her.

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

I see a lot of similarities and coincidences in life, in general.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

What God sends is welcome.

I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.

Iron is the final peal of a star’s natural life.

Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.