Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.