The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

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.'

Home isn’t four walls, it’s the people you’re with.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process.

But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.

Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.