The menu is not the meal.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Join the dance.
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or you will fall for anything.
A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
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.
Everything intelligent is so boring.
How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
We teach people how to treat us.
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.
