If you want to attract people, you need to be like people you enjoy being with.
Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.
If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.
Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.
Somewhere out there are a few men with more innate talent at golf than Jack Nicklaus, or women with greater ability at tennis than Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova, but they will never lift a club or swing a racket and therefore will never find out how great they could have been. Instead, they'll be content to sit and watch stars perform on television.
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.