If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted

When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

On and on you will hike. And I know you'll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.

Either way, you are in charge. Jealousy works against you. It takes control away from you, hands it over to the opposition. Maintain control.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.

God created women only to tame men.