To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Give your approval to all you cannot understand.