Think with the whole body.

Think with your whole body.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

You have to practice until you die.

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.

You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

Imitate Jesus and Socrates

While you fear missing a meal you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't allow African Americans to eat there.

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?

The intelligence of the universe is social.

Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.

Ever since I was a child, I wanted to excel in everything.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.