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.

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.

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

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.

Life is all we have, the grace of service to mankind.

Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.

Not only England but every Englishman is an island.

I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.

My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life.

I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

You can bloom wherever you're planted, if you put enough effort into it.

Your dreams should never be better than your real life

She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself.