The heart of the path is quite simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

Real freedom is not about controlling our experience, but about being free within our experience.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

The greatest obstacle to meditation is our expectation about what it should be.

The nature of mind is clearer than the sky, yet we keep looking elsewhere.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

The cultivation of loving-kindness has the power to transform enmity into amity, hostility into hospitality.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.

To live is enough.

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

True peace comes not from controlling the world, but from letting go of control.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

The yogi's joy is in the solitude of mountains, where all distractions naturally dissolve into emptiness.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.

The zazen I speak of is not meditation practice. It is simply the dharma gate of joyful ease.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

The signs of practice are not in extraordinary experiences but in extraordinary awareness of ordinary experiences.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

Happiness is not about getting what you want, but wanting what you've got.

If you want to find peace, then look at that point where you find you're dissatisfied and investigate what's really going on.

Wisdom and compassion must be developed equally and harmoniously.

The nature of the mind is like the sky, and our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are like clouds passing through it.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.