Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

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.

Open up your eyes for me people, the prophecies are true and the beast is real.

In a true tragedy both parties must be right.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life

Hillary Clinton says one thing herself, but she has other people who are floating her plans.

Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them.

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories

I said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be.