It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

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.'

Learning becomes the knowledge builder and we can define learning through the information it absorbs and the capability it builds.

The universe belongs to you, and you belong to your conscience.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my living. But to be honest, I'd write even if I weren't being paid to.

Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people.

I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.

I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.