Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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.

Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through.

The struggle is never easy to finding what is lost and to gain the best of what is to come without sweat.

It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.

You cannot, and will not, encounter a circumstance, or a single moment, that does not serve directly and immediately the need of your soul to heal.

I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.