To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

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.'

Uthlubul ilma minal mahdi ila lahdi. Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. -178

You are no longer responsible. You are no longer allowed to give a shit. Nobody can need you ever again. Go.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

Can't stop the signal

After I win the job and even in the course of seeking it, we're going to be building bridges. And we're going to be meeting people and addressing the concerns that they have.

It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.

I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.