People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.

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.'

You are changing the world with your thoughts, actions and creation.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.

The way our brain is wired up we only see what we believe is possible.

When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

I think the French girls are fabulous.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion