IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

Choosing the right people to surround you, and letting go of the wrong ones, takes courage.Be courageous!

I’m willing to walk in darkness if it keeps humans in the light.

Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

Christianity = me moving out, God moving in.

I think my whole living in vain involves me. I know that the biggest help for me is to help someone else in so many different ways.

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.

Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.

Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.