The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.

The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.

If you learn to enjoy waiting, you don't have to wait to enjoy.

Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

If you are under control, you lose the danger of glimpsing an unknown realm.

What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.

I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

There is an intelligent healing process inside of you that knows how to absorb pain and transform it into wisdom.

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

I think a lot of people are aware of the things I do, but maybe because of who I am, they don't want to report the good things about Albert Belle.

The principals in elegantly simple. We learn to love by being loved, we learn gentleness by being gentled, we learn to be graceful by experiencing the feeling of grace.

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.

When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

There's something beautiful about working in the one place in the world where the world is present, like United Nations. Otherwise, one would have to go to each of these countries to negotiate.

Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders