Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

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.'

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.

It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.