Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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.

The only area of strength for Satan’s rulership is in our area of ignorance.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

I don't really put trophies out. I don't keep trophies around my apartment.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

I awaken today, appreciating everything in sight, and I give thanks.

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.