Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.

When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are. You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you. You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.