A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The thorn will come out from where it went in
The subtle energies and information that underlie this universe were there before its particles of matter appeared and will be there after these particles disappear.
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.
A fool judges people by the presents they give him
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.
We all have a relationship with everything. Obviously the relationship we have with the people and objects in our immediate vicinity is more intimate than the rest of the world. For most of us the most common relationship is possession. In our minds we think we own and possess things like cars and houses and carpets and golf clubs etc. This thinking easily spreads into jobs and tasks and positions and perhaps even other people. "I want you", and "You are mine alone", is the essence of many romantic film scripts and song lyrics. What we forget is that this relationship is wrong. It is not possible to possess anything. Care for..yes. Use...yes. But possess...no. You can't take it with you when you go, so we say! And yet it's the idea of possession which lies at the heart of all fear, war and conflict. Can you see it? Fear of loss, fear of not acquiring what we have already decided is ours in our minds. So what is a better relationship we can choose which takes all the fear away. Be a trustee. Everything comes to us in trust, for us to use and then to set it free. The consciousness of trustee sets us free of the tension of grasping and guarding. To see ourselves as trustees of everything that we receive, including our bodies, encourages our innate capacity to 'care for with dignity'. It is a much more relaxing way of relating to the things which we are privileged to receive in life.
There is great beauty in simplicity. That which is simple is close to Truth.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is within us.
