If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.

The world is its own magic.

It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.

When something dies is the greatest teaching.

In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.

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