A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.

If you learn to enjoy waiting, you don't have to wait to enjoy.

Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.

If you are under control, you lose the danger of glimpsing an unknown realm.

What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.

I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.

What it takes is the passion to lead and the commitment to that passion through a lifetime. A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The world's a scene of changes and to be constant in nature is inconstancy.

Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.

We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy.

Dancing is like riding a bike.

Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?

Present fear is never as bad as later regret.

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.