If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
By seeing life as a game, your lightness of spirit will make problems seem easier.
Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth.
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips.
It doesnt matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical
