Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe.

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.

Always desire to learn something useful

As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.