As long as we are mindful and aware, no one practice is better than another.

An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.

Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.

Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

Don't even think for a moment that you are not going to die.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

I have nowhere to go and no place I’m supposed to be. Am I lost or completely free?

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.

...winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird...

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.