The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.

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.

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.

You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.