The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

Think with your whole body.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

You have to practice until you die.

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.

You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

When you were too young and naïve to see the risks, I incurred your wrath to protect you. Scream at me for it if you must. Thank me for it when you finally grow up.

The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

you must not use wood to put out the fire.

When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

I need your help," says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

What brought me to Christianity is Incarnation, not Ressurection.

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Never trust second thoughts. Next thing you know there'll be a third and a fourth...you'll be thinking forever!

If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush