Nothing needs to be done, and things get done.

The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined, ” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.

The mind is limitless, in its creations.

Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.

To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.

I am not alone, in my aloneness.

We come to the end of suffering, through suffering.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

until he who possesses sapience comes, the one with knowledge shall be the hero

Verily, affluence brings anxiety!

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.

The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.