You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

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.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

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.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

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.

Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible

Emotion will never seize to prevail logic.

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.

1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.

You cannot have a testimony without a test. Will you pass the test or have the monies?

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.