Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.

If you learn to enjoy waiting, you don't have to wait to enjoy.

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.

If you are under control, you lose the danger of glimpsing an unknown realm.

What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.

I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.

It was like she had been playing 'nhodo' with her life, foolishly trying to outsmart an imaginary playmate named Fate.

I've been a huge horror fan since I was about eight years old, which is a little bit young to be watching scary movies.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.

In fact, presidents and vice presidents are automatically audited by the IRS, which hasn't stopped other chief executives from making them public.

We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.

There is no space wider than that of grief.