The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

If you miss the moment, you miss your life.

To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.

There is no place to search for the truth. Though it's right beneath your feet, it can't be found.

To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.

What transpires for the least significant member transpires at once for the whole.

Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.

Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.

Be strong. It is our adversity that leads us to our character.

Sarcasm is one of the many services I offer to people who ask stupid questions!

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

I'm increasingly less interested in classic storylines and that arc that we have come to expect.

Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.

If I ain't learning, it ain't fun.