To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.

Learn to meditate. It's fun. It will give you a strong, wonderful mind.

Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.

The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.

Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.

In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.