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

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

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.

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

All of Christ's commands are invitations and all of His invitations are commands.

We are limited only by our unwillingness to take action.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

It's so silly not to be nice.

If you don't believe in yourself how will somebody else believe in you?

Something good made something bad possible (though not inevitable). Humans, however, didn't use their freedom well. Instead of using it to honor God in friendship, they used it to rebel.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.