Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

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.'

During my PhD, I was depressed for eight-months, state of deep-worry.

Let Your Inhibitions Run Free

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. How important it is, then, that one of our fundamental teachings to our children is how to pray.

To speak a true word is to transform the world.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.