Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: "do this, don't do that."
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow the other also to enjoy simplicity, innocence, trust, love, openness.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Like Weather, one's fortune may change by the evening.
Our thoughts and feelings can so easily be influenced by how we perceive others. If we make a firm choice to alway keep a positive vision of those around us, then we will enjoy better relationships.
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
If you want to do well, sell people what they need; if you want to get rich,
sell people what they want.
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
Solutions are never necessary because there are no problems, only our perception makes it seem so, and only our minds make our perceptions seem real. If there is a problem it is our perception. That is hard to see in a world that celebrates and rewards the finding and solving of ‘the problem’. When you decide that you will no longer perceive the problem, you will see only the facts or a situation. Facts are just facts and any and every situation can always be improved, unless it is in the past, then it’s just a memory, and memories are never a problem, are they? If you can cancel from the patterns of your perceptions, the very idea of ‘problem’ then you will not only be a positive thinker and positive proactive actor, you will be a leader.
Only when you are standing on the foundation of your values are you able to maintain your truth.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, dont you think that we might see each other once or twice?
