Maezumi Roshi

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

The connection between us runs so strong and deep. It’s like a steel cable stretching across the ocean bed, so many fathoms below, that even the most skilled and courageous of deep sea divers cannot reach it to cut it. It remains strong, silent, invisible, invincible.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

The sun is but a morning star.

If we want maturity, we have to be mature. If we want a nation that feels hopeful, then we have to speak in hopeful terms… We have to model what we want.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! … Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show…let me do it now.- William Penn

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.