There is no place to search for the truth. Though it's right beneath your feet, it can't be found.

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

If you miss the moment, you miss your life.

To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.

To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.

What transpires for the least significant member transpires at once for the whole.

Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.

Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.

Run the race of life with all endurance.

You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.

The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

A career, like a business, must be budgeted. When it is necessary, the budget can be adjusted to meet changing conditions. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.