So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.

To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.

In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.

The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.

If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

We all shed salty tears and shed red blood. All is one.

Since everything is interrelated, since all things depend one upon another, nothing is absolute, nothing is separate, but all are part of the one indivisible whole.

Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. He will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle

The love of money can do wicked things to one's soul.

Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling--when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, comma with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.