Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

Belts are only good for holding up your pants

In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.

Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.