Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest.

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.

In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

God is not a being among other beings, but the infinite Whither that makes possible the very functioning of our human spirit.

Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.

I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.

Cacao is rich in happy phenethylamine chemicals called PEA. These compounds have been associated with feeling good and falling in love.

The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.

I use a pick in my hair without force. You use a lawn mower-you got peat moss.

Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?

She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.

It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.

Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.