If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing in nothing, believing in something which has no form or no color, which is ready to take form or color. This enlightenment is the immutable truth. It is on this orginal truth that our activity, our thinking, and our practice should be based.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

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

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

Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.