Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

The way that helps will not be the same; it changes according to the situation.

Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.