"The best way is to understand yourself, then you will understand everything."

-- Suzuki Roshi

"If I tell you something, you will stick to it, and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself."

-- Suzuki Roshi

"So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy, and to make others happy."

-- Shunryu Suzuki

"To express enlightenment in each moment is to live each moment afresh, without ideas or attachment anywhere."

-- Shunryu Suzuki, Roshi

"Our way to practice is one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea."

-- Shunryu Suzuki, Roshi

"Sometimes, just to be alive is enough."

-- Suzuki Roshi

"Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink."

-- Shunryu Suzuki

"Renunciation is not giving up the things of this world; it is accepting that they go away."

-- Shunryu Suzuki

"Without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself as you are is the most important thing."

-- Shunryu Suzuki

"Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement."

-- Shunryu Suzuki