To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.

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.

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

Dear God, Let the anointing and the power of the Holy Spirit be mighty upon me, so I can who you want me to be.

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.

I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.

Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

We have built something [a nuclear stockpile] bigger than we can drive.

I think it's harder to learn a language without having a goal.