To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.

Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower. That was my experience. Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

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.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.