You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

If only you could hear the sound of snow

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

Are you Lewis Carroll?" Redd asked him.

It's never too late to start. It's always too late to wait.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.