There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

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.'

(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.

Love and help others unconditionally without expectation you are creating in effect, this creation will multiply for you in a million ways. Ana Maria Frith, Limitless: Change Your Life

For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves.

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

If life is for living, then I live mine for you, if life is for giving, then I give mine to you, if hearts are for beating, then mine beats for you.

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

For excellence, the presence of others is always required.

And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.

I'm not good at hiding my feelings. I'm also not good at lying. I'm very open about everything.

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.