The world is its own magic.
Real practice has no purpose or direction, so it can include everything that comes.
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
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.
To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you can not eat.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn’t want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand — relax!
Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons.
