“To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.”— Dōgen Zenji
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.”— Shunryu Suzuki
“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.”— Shunryu Suzuki
“There's no place to get to. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be but what you are.”— James Broughton
“Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.”— Matsuo Basho
“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.”— Natalie Goldberg
“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”— Hermann Hesse
“The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.”— John Cage
“The first rule of fishing is to be quiet. The second rule is to be still. It's the same for painting.”— John Lurie