Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

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.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

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.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

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.

I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.

When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God

I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.

It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.

I won't lie - when you're first bringing out music and you want people to notice, you probably overdo it, especially as a girl.

A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown.

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.