“Render unto meditation the things that are meditation’s, and unto medication the things that are medication’s.”
Source: Kill Your Self: Life After Ego
“Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.”
“Being the people we are, and feeling the way that we do, getting excited about going somewhere new can be terrifying. Of course it is, I get it! But if you don’t travel, you’ll regret it. Your soul will forever be empty.”
Source: From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
“We die, he said.
We die, I said. And knowing this how do we live?
Knowing this, we live.
We live.”
“God's plan for your life is happening right now. It doesn't begin when you get married or when you get your dream job or when everything feels perfect. You are IN the plan. - TLC's friend Kris (p.159)”
Source: Crowded Skies: Letters To Manhattan
“All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon; and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond.”
Source: Buddhist Art in Its Relation to Buddhist Ideals
“You worry yourself unnecessarily. Put the thought of hitting right out of your mind!”
Source: Zen in the Art of Archery
“Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.”
Source: The Secret of Secrets
“...being able to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension...without continually asking yourself: Shall I be able to manage it? Wait patiently, as see what comes - and how it comes!”
Source: Zen in the Art of Archery
“Zen is a single step—the journey of one single step. You can call it the last step or the first step, it doesn’t matter. It is the first and it is the last, the alpha and the omega. The whole teaching of Zen consists of only one thing: how to take a jump into nothingness, how to come to the very end of your mind, which is the end of the world.”
Source: Zen: The Path of Paradox