For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

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.'

Don’t try to build Me into your life anymore. Instead, build your life around Me.

Daniel: So, how are you?Sophie: Buckling under the weight of a thousand expectations. You?

I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.

I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.

I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.

I want to be on that team that wins the world championship here in Chicago and sees the city go crazy.

Thousands of Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants.

A great team doesn’t mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.