If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all things mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, sun, moon, stars, universe are all oneself. There is no longer a division or barrier between myself and others, no longer any feeling of alienation or fear there is nothing apart from oneself and therefore nothing to fear. Realizing this results in true compassion. Other people and things are not seen as apart from oneself but, on the contrary, as one's own body.

If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.

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.

There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.