When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

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.'

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

I've had my past lives read, my aura tuned, my chakras aligned, my spirit guides channeled, my palms interpreted, and my kundalini awakened.

Censorship like charity should begin at home but unlike charity it should end there.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

It doesn't do a lot of good for your health to move from red meat to white meat, but it gets you further down the road towards making more substantial changes later.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.