There is no mistake in nature.
Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
When you want nothing from anyone else, you’re safe for anyone to be with. Including yourself.
Love is kind, it’s clear. It’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
I apologize when I’m wrong.
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.
Don’t worry about things you cannot alter.
If you really understand Zen, you can use any book, even the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.
I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.
Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we’re here to explore new possibilities.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak of yourself.
The things you own end up owning you.
We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
There it is: it doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.
I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.
When you make changes in your life, make sure youre moving toward the things you want.
