"All spiritual life begins with the shock of impermanence."

-- David Guy

"When you really pay attention everything is your teacher."

-- Ezra Bayda

"Education by an means would smell as sweet, and maybe much sweeter, if it didn't begin with a quest for knowledge at all, but with a quest, as Zen would put it, for no knowledge."

-- Buddy in J.D. Salinger's Franny & Zooey.

"To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men."

-- Yoshida Shorin Zenshu

"Season's first tea fire

hanging scroll

Nothing to possess."

-- Mitsu Suzuki

'Sixty-six years piling sins, 

I leap into hell -- above life and death."

-- T'ien- t'ung Ju-ching

"We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence."

-- Shunryu Suzuki

"The meaning of life is to see."

-- Hui Neng

"The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see."

-- Hunag-Po

"If you know that fundamentally there is nothing to seek, you have settled your affairs."

-- Rinzai

"If you don't look at the evil in others, you are free."

-- Sodo Yokoyama

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

-- Shunryu Suzuki

"The building up of good and evil both involve attachment to form."

-- Huang Po

"It is a wonderful feeling to have one's life and one's work become one, to see that one works either twenty-four hours a day or not at all."

-- Paul Wienpahl

"In pure mindfulness everything is poetry."

-- Haju Sunim

"Even if eighty-fur thousand random thoughts arise and disappear, as long as the individual does not get involved in them but lets go of them, then each thought will become the light of spiritual power, of wisdom."

-- Zen Master Ejo

"Do not seek reality, just stop views."

-- Third Zen Patriarch

"Only in seeing and dropping unequivocally everything that divides us can there be freedom."

-- Toni Packer

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

-- Shunryu Suzuki

"Teaching which does not feel as if it is forcing something on you is not true teaching."

-- Dogen