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

Problems only exist in the human mind.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.

The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: "Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know." When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, "Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?" All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, "Put it into words." All of them were silent.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

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