There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it.

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.'

Nothing will ever be solved if we wallow in the darkness of denial.

I was once in darkness, but now, the light of God has shone upon me.

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.