Even though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

When I was younger, I didn't even realize the way I think visually is different.

The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?