You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.

The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.

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

So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self.

Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.