To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

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.'

Whether or not I protect the weeds isn't a matter of just recognizing the weed for what it is, but possessing the conviction to grab hold of the roots and yank like my life depends on it.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Jesus' fathomless love changes how you and I will live in our moments, how we'll love in our neighborhoods, and what we'll be known for in eternity.

I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

Anti-depressan ts Controlling tools of your system Making life more tolerable Making life more tolerable

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.