Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

The world is its own magic.

Discipline is creating the situation.

Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

We must exist right here, right now!

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

The true practice of meditation is to sit as if you were drinking water when you are thirsty.

In our practice, we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship.

Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life.

Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

When you do something you should burn yourself up completely like a good bonfire leaving no trace of yourself.

Zen is not some kind of excitement but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately although it is true it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience we suffer.

To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him.

Hell is not punishment its training.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.

There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.

A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

Hell is not punishment, it's training.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.

I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.