"What we think, we become."
— Buddha
"The world is what I believe to be true."
— Byron Katie
"Love tells me I am everything.
Wisdom tells me I am nothing.
And between the two my life flows."
— Swami Nisargadatta
"All I want to do is learn to think like God thinks.
All the other things are just details."
— Albert Einstein
"Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means."
— Dr. Koichi Kawana
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
— George Bernard Shaw
"The deeper you go into yourself, the more personal you make it - the more universal it becomes."
— Pablo Picasso
"Liberation is liberation from the idea of liberation."
— Wei wu wei
"Conquer haste."
— Zen teaching
"Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods."
— James Joyce
"God, whose love and joy are present everywhere,
can't come to visit you unless you aren't there."
— Angelus Silesius
"Only one koan matters:
You."
— Ikkyu
"Do you want to know what suffering is?
To live a lie."
— Byron Katie
"It's no use walking anywhere to preach anything unless our walking is our preaching."
— St. Francis of Assisi
"The only thing that wants to get rid of the ego is the ego."
— Ken Wilbur
"The observer within you who is always noticing your surroundings and your thoughts is in reality the source of your physical world."
— Wayne Dwyer
"The one you are seeking is the one who seeks."
— Gurumai
"The reward of a job well done is having done it."
— Cicero
"Only those who know when enough is enough
will ever have enough."
— Lao-tsu
"That that is is."
— Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"If people did not sometimes do silly things,
nothing intelligent would ever get done."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Be who you is,
not who you ain't,
'cuz if you ain't who you is,
you is who you ain't."
— Anon.
"Those who hold to things are dumb as cows.
Those who hold to emptiness are even dumber.
Real unknowing is holding to neither and enjoying both."
— Saraha
"I'd like to offer something to help you.
But in the Zen school
We don't have a single thing."
— Ikkyu
“You will find yourself knee-deep in ecstasy when all your talents to love have reached their heights.”
— Hafiz
