People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

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.

I have a decision to go, but I am not sure to choose which other prison on the earth.

A hermit never lives alone when he has God as a house guest.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

Liberalism means well, but it destroys

The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.

The way to become rich is to make money, not to save it.

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

I hate to judge everybody across the board.

The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal.