Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

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.'

Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going

Donald Trump understood America. He animated America, and now he'll be the president of all Americans.

Love and kindness go hand in hand.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

I always credit; I never just steal something. I'm very much a product of everything that I've read and seen and heard or listened to.

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing.