Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

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.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult.

The kick [of comedy] is to think quickly. It's a great kick.

Negative thinking keeps us from enjoying life.

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.

On his [Marco Rubio] Gang of Eight bill, he would have liberalized immigration, but he did not - and he steadfastly opposed any new border security requirements for refugees or students.