True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

...people with nothing to declare carry the most.

God is in people. Miracles and blessings happen through people

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

I'll always be with you, inside and out," she reads. "Through hard times and helpless ones, through love, through doubt.

Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

I wanted to make a name for myself.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all.

It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost!