The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

If only you could fully grasp how valuable, how limited and how unique every moment of your life is, you would never stand as still as a statue even a single moment because action is real living!

For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough.

Some of the choices you make might not always turn out to be the best ones, but at least you are learning as you go.

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be mt flowers.

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome.

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

Your cells are as depressed as you are, and your cells are as happy and frisky as you are.

I am geared towards communicating on a female level.

Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.