The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

I don't believe in getting something for nothing.