When you understand one thing through and through, you understand 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.'

A photograph captures a magical moment for the future to ponder.

To find yourself, lose yourself in search of knowledge and love.

When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.

Often people freeze under severe pressure, but that says nothing about their ultimate capability- only their level of preparation.

... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.

What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.