The world is its own magic.
To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you can not eat.
Real practice has no purpose or direction, so it can include everything that comes.
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki
Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
We all have our challenges, issues, things that we’re working through and insecurity is there because nobody is perfect no matter who you are. It’s that imperfection that makes you so dope.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
