You don’t seek the way. The way seeks you.

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.

Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!

Live the Self that fills the whole Universe.

The secret in any situation is the strength of spirit.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.

They that touch pitch will be defiled.