The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose 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.

Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.

Love is always by definition a choice

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

I look just like the girl next door ... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

Architects need to restore and protect.

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.