The menu is not the meal.
If you really understand Zen, you can use any book, even the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.
Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!
I believe in 100% Theory and 100% Practice. Theory without practical application is futile.
I think everyone has their own set of problems, and sometimes I feel I’m in the middle of the biggest challenge of my life just trying to maintain normalcy in a kind of crazy lifestyle.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Listen to the birds and don’t hate nobody.
Life is managed; it is not cured.
A man can’t ‘just be friends’ with another woman. Period.
