Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.

One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.

Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the laughter about the whole foolishness of your problems, the laughter about the whole absurdity of your suffering.

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind.

I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.

Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems