To Zen, time and eternity are one.

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.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

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.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

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.

Bones has always been smart, " I muttered. "His intelligence was just camouflaged under a mountain of p**sy."Cat

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.

The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.