Chance favors those in motion.

When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.

The days of me being "tolerant" are long gone. The days of me being "intolerant" have just begun.

It's night in the Free People's World Tree Library. All the librarians are asleep, ... between the pages of their enchanted novels.

The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.

I love life. I love life to death.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.

We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward.

Everything will probably never be Ok. But we have to try for it.