I caught my wife in bed with my best friend the other day. I was crushed. They could have waited till I'd got out.
From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.
All beings by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.
If you forget yourself, you become the universe.
Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.
At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.
Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.
One of my favourites is American Beauty. Spacey is so good in that.