Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

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.'

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.

Your enemies are people too, and maybe they don't have to be enemies if they're that much like you.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesnt happen very often.