When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

You're on your own little quest, an there's a bit of Frodo Baggins in you, and a bit of Verne's Paganel, and just a tiny drop of Robinson Cursoe, and a smidgeon of Radishchev.

Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?

Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.

Be a fountain, not a drain.

I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.