Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: you won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

In my youth I studied, in my prime I practiced, now all my doubts are cleared.

The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

Compassion is not mere sentiment but a powerful force that can transform both ourselves and others.

The Buddha and all sentient beings are nothing but expressions of the one mind. There is nothing else.

Time passes unhindered. When we make ourselves better, we make the world better.

The knowledge of dissolution comes when you see both the noting mind and noted object dissolving together.

The path is the goal. Every step of the journey is the journey.

Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

When you love someone, you have to have trust and confidence. Love without trust is not yet love.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

The key to meditation is to recognize the nature of your mind rather than trying to change it.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

The Buddha's teachings are not about abandoning our lives but about bringing the fullness of our attention to our lives.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfection.

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

In the beginning, nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Your own treasure house contains everything you need; why search outside?

The force of the kindness of others is so strong, we can't possibly measure it.