For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.