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.

Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.

If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

We do not slight the idea of enlightenment, but the most important thing is this moment, not some day in the future. We have to make our effort in this moment. This is the most important thing for our practice.