Tai Shimano visited Shunryu Suzuki. "How are you feeling these days?" Suzuki replied, "They have a new name for me: Cancer!"

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.'

If you long for excellence, greatness follows.

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

Prayer is like a business, the you put in more input the greater the output becomes.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

Donald Trump is just unfit, unprepared, just doesn't get it, shouldn't be the commander in chief of America.

May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.

The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it.

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.