Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.