When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

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.'

Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.

A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.

it’s hard to tell whether ornot hell’s flames are gettingcloser

Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls.

You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler about the idea of separation of powers.