The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.

If you learn to enjoy waiting, you don't have to wait to enjoy.

Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.

If you are under control, you lose the danger of glimpsing an unknown realm.

What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.

I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.

Everything okay?”“I’m not sure, but it’s not shittier, so that’s something.”She laughed. “Still an optimist.

The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it.

We have no borders. Our vets are being treated horribly. Illegal immigration is beyond belief.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

Having an education is invaluable.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker.