When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose

If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.

We are on a journey not to be perfect, but to be whole.

What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up