Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

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.'

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

From Bourbon Street to Baton Rouge, the freaks come out at night in Louisiana. And nowhere are they more raucous and unnerving than at Tiger Stadium.

From the pain come the dream From the dream come the vision From the vision come the people From the people come the power From this power come the change.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.