We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.

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.

Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

You can only conquer hate with love.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

A Bombshell commands attention for her business with a strong culture, consistent branding, and simple, no-to-low cost marketing.

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

No word makes me happier than the word "daddy" when it's directed to me.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.