When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

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 don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems

Ensure that your fame doesn't bring you shame.

Alone in the dark all we have are the supernal lights in each others eyes left to illuminate the room, the only sound our breathing.

Good Seeds! Gratitude is the Greatest Attitude that has no Substitute.

Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it enjoy it taste it smell it feel it.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.