Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

If only you could hear the sound of snow

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.

...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

I am a very thorough person.

It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

On Shabbat something happens to the world - the world becomes infinite again.