It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise.
Given that early kidney disease has no symptoms, most people do not realize that they are in danger of kidney failure.
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very
angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
"Wow...thats beautiful!" Is either a cry or a thought when faced with the mountain sunset, a spectacular view or a well formed man or woman. But where is the beauty, where is the appreciation of beauty, where is the ability to discern beauty? It is within our own consciousness. For the essence of who and what we are is beauty itself. The essence of beauty is not found in the body, a face or a mountain - they only stir the essence of beauty within our own spirit. And that beauty is not only something we taste within ourselves, but it emerges in our character as virtue, and in our life as care. For what is virtue, but love in action. The next time you say, "Thats beautiful!" know that you speak of yourself, and it is you who are beautiful. Always were, always will be.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears. One starts living with a very light weight or almost no weight. So weightless one becomes, one can fly in the open sky.
Zens greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children.
The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done this far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we created them.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
If opportunity does not knock, go out and build a door.
Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
A mind can make a heaven out of hell, or a hell out of heaven.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
