But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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.

Because in the end, we die. It’s like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: ‘in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.

It was your choice to sleep with her Gavin! It didn't just happen!

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

Cuba changed you. I changed you. And you are changing me.

He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves

An agenda is not a bad thing.

If you feel overwhelmed, you may be trying to achieve too much at once. Step back and look at your goals. If you're doing too much, it's time to reprioritize.

Motherhood is all-encompassing, and in a way, as the mother, you're the star of the household.

You must all pay attention to your health first.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.