“Wise man is the rooster of the universe: He awakens the unawake!”

Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!

Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!

In autumn, don’t go to jewellers to see gold; go to the parks!

Not every ant which stays under the elephant’s foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!

For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything!

Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!

Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!

Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!

Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!

A gate to nature is a gate to heaven!

For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.

The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time!

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

I work out with my trainer or do an hour of pilates at 6 or 7AM. I’m done by the time my household is awake.

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation