Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years.

If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest.

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.

In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

Just be Nice. Nice—this little word has a big meaning. Use it generously. Being nice helps people feel emotionally safe, allowing for more authentic, trusting, and happy interactions.

I know you don't always need to spend a ton of money to be stylish.

I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain.

Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.