We die, and we do not die.

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.'

Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

We all have a different answer to what defines our happiness and fulfillment, but for all of us it begins with inner peace. Without inner peace, happiness and fulfillment is hard to reach.

Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

My fear of anger taught me nothing.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.