Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

I have all these things that I want to say to her, like... Like how I can tell she's a lonely person, even if other people can't. Cause I know what it feels like to be lost and lonely and invisible.

The sky would be clear, colorless, mist blending together the air and the ocean, the waves whispering against the rocks.

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.

Character is the only secure foundation of the state.

There is nothing more attractive than a person who radiates simple unaffected humanity.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.

I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.