“Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.”

Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.

Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.

When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.

One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.

The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.

Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.

Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.

If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.

When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.

What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.

Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.

To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’

If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.

I’ve heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don’t like that. Because I think I’m established now.

In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

You’re the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I’m in public. It might as well be a press conference.

It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.

I’m not going to impugn anyone’s integrity. I’m not going to attack their character. And, in fact, I will happily praise both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio as men who I admire, as people who I’m not going to go personal with them.

Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.