The appearances of the world are not the problem, it's clinging to them that causes suffering

Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.

Realizing that nothing can last, that all is as dreamlike illusion.

One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.

Don’t recall. Don’t imagine. Don’t think. Don’t examine. Don’t control. Rest.

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

Never give in and never give up.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Business neglected is business lost.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.