When something dies is the greatest teaching.

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.'

If you fail a thousand times, find a thousand and one ways to succeed.

You cannot go back and start a brand new beginning, but today is a new day and you can start a brand new thing.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak, be our silent statement.

...there’s few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife.

You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.

It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not.

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

I don't know what to think of the money. It's kind of mind-boggling. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar family. We've never really had money.

The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.