The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one.

Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.

A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents.

Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout.

Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.

The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up.

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.

The eyes are the amulets of the mind.

If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.