There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment

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.'

Judge me on what I do and I think you will be pleased and proud of me.

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

Being up front is the only place to be.

Many Americans are very concerned with the lack of vetting that is going on.

Love is not a victory march

The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.

If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.