Traveling ten thousand miles will enrich you more than reading ten thousand pages

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

"Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return"

There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.

There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.

Live Simply that others may Simply Live

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention.  Friendship is always an act of recognition... in the moment of friendship, two souls suddenly recognize each other.  It could be a meeting on the street, or at a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is the flash of recognition and the embers of kinship grow.  There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.