Moon like a large stainedglass window that breaks on the ocean.

The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake

Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.

If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel the joy, passion, and happiness that living fully and loving deeply bring.

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Being Happy is important, not the reason.

I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.

You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.

I'm vulnerable reading people's comments on Facebook.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.