Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

If only you could hear the sound of snow

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

While the man is putting on it's shoes, the woman can buy dozens of high heels.

Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion.""No, " [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.

You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!

Celebrate your own special spirit fly on the wings of your secret dreams

Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.