To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.
The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.
I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.
A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.
In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.
Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it all.
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence. . . Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.