The space you leave behind is as important as the space you fill.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand—and melting like a snowflake.

Whatever happens in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a…

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Zen enriches no one. There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while in the place where it is thought to be. But they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the “nothing,” the “nobody” that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the…

To forget ego is to be illuminated by all things.

Self knowledge is not the product of will; self knowledge comes into being through awareness of the moment by moment responses to the movement of life.

Call on your natural curiosity as you focus inward. Try to let go of any preconceived ideas and instead listen in a kind, receptive way to your body and heart.

I know it was wonderful, but I don’t know how I did it.

We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same…

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who…

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

Here is the Dharma: You will not know your delusions until you awaken from them.

Happiness is unwavering peace of mind in daily living.

In nature there are neither rewards no punishments; there are consequences.

The absurd is lucid reason recognizing its limits.

And more and more my language appears to me like a veil which one has to tear apart in order to get to those things (or the nothingness) lying behind it.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to vibrantly alive in repose.

Make no discrimination between a sage and an ordinary man.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

When you look for it, there is nothing to see. / When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear. / When you use it, it is inexhaustible.

All religion begins with the cry “Help!”

The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given to you by yourself. They are at home at the hearth of your soul.

When you practice meditation, rather than “watching” the breath, let yourself gradually identify with it, as if you were becoming it. Slowly the breath, the breather, and the breathing become one; duality and separation dissolve. You will find that this very simple process of mindfulness filters your thoughts and emotions. Then, as if you were…

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.