The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

If only you could hear the sound of snow

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.

Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.

It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.

America will never resist abortion until America sees abortion... The pro-life movement is not primarily a response to Roe vs Wade. It is a response to Jesus Christ.

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.