Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined, ” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.

The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

The mind is limitless, in its creations.

Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.

Nothing needs to be done, and things get done.

To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.

I am not alone, in my aloneness.

We come to the end of suffering, through suffering.

But you will find yourself disarmed utterly, and your accusing spirit transformed into loving forgiveness the moment you remember that you did, in fact, marry only a sinner, and so did he.

A giant motherboard of geese, unruffled by the statepolice, swarmed in unison, in harmony...

One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.