The world is its own magic.
Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!
Real practice has no purpose or direction, so it can include everything that comes.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you can not eat.
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
