When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

When there is no place that you have decided to call your own, then no matter where you go, you are always heading home.

It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.

If the wrong person preaches a right teaching, even a right teaching can become wrong. If a right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching can become right.

There exists a miracle in every moment.

People who need people are threatened by people who don’t. The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

Katie, when I saw you again, there was nothing I wanted to do more than stand by your side for the rest of my life.

What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

This book has too much plot and not enough story.