The way that helps will not be the same; it changes according to the situation.

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.

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.

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.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

Rainbows would never spring from a crock full of credit cards or computer printouts.

As humans, it is in our nature to focus on picking ourselves up while the whole world falls apart.

It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.

Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

I had sadness for breakfast.

That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.

If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look.

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.