The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

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.

Merry Heart And Joy Is To Maintain Your Well Being

Innovation, reinventing the invention

Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.

Knowing what to expect next gives children a sense of security.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.