When I chop wood, I chop wood. When I carry water, I carry water.

How miraculous and wondrous, hauling water and carrying firewood!

The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.

Food and clothes sustain Body and life; I advise you to learn Being as is. When it's time, I move my hermitage and go, And there's nothing To be left behind.

How wondrously supernatural, And how miraculous this! I draw water, and I carry fuel.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.

Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air?Then all we are left with are stories.

Black as night, sweet as sin.

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

Sharing is having more.

Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.