Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

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.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

I have been and always shall be your friend.

If only you knew what God has in the book of success for you, you wouldn't have a single reason to live in doubts and worries again.

May my weakness not drive me to my knees in despair, but raise me up to You, Lord.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

I'm a real stubborn person. I'm still humble, not too cocky, but I'm big headed. I know what I wanna do and I know how I wanna do it and I know what needs to be done.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.