Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

There are no lack of ideas in the Universe… and there is such joy entering into that abundant stream with other connected souls.

Known for leaving, she asked me who I would consider sticking around for. I said, "The one who asked me to and meant it.

Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

I am not a writer except when I write.

Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

I'm free to give my love, but you're not the one I'm thinking of.