Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.
Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.
As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few. . . . In the beginner's mind there is no thought, 'I have attained something. ' All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. We can really learn something.
Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.
If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything
Our first half is about how to make a living, and our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life.
If you truly believe that what you have is useful and valuable to your clients, then you have a moral obligation to try to serve them in every way possible.
Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.
If you want to know why you didn't make a boat -- I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish, not rowing.