Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

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.'

Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life's great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience.

I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.

Well, I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!

I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten.

The moment we definitely commit ourselves, Providence moves, too.

A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.