In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.

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.'

Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.

May God us keepFrom Single vision and Newton's sleep.

Living with you will be likeaiming for a moving target

They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?

I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school everybody hated me.

When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you're gonna live forever.

This is just one little part of who I am, and I'm not gonna let my sexuality define or confine me. It's part of me, it's not all of me.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

If we are to experience true worship, our love for God has to supersede our love of anyone and anything else.