The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.

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.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

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.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

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.

Write every day. Even if it's only a letter.

For each person I lost I found a new layer of grief to cover myself with, and each time I tried to bring something of their essence into my own being - be it unconditional love, kindness and piety.

Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

You might at least believe that I know honor- honor and debt.

It is fascinating to see how much Pope Francis relies on the work of the bishops in the Synods.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

As an actor, throughout three years, I've become more comfortable within my own skin and confident.

Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash.