Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's footsteps. Each of us has to find his own way.

If you realize what the real problem is – losing yourself – you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

The perfect human being is uninteresting the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

We must let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

But I do know what bliss is: that deep sense of being present, of doing what you absolutely must do to be yourself.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.

Your bliss can guide you to that transcendent mystery, because bliss is the welling up of the energy of the transcendent wisdom within you.

The warrior's approach is to say “yes” to life: “yes” to it all. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.