“It is a great mistake to say Conquer it, for we can never conquer nature; we can only harmonize with it.”

“Forget self pity, live life! Be the artist of your own life.”

“We do not understand that we are literally able to live and enjoy life only because of other people and things. If one really understands this truth, he cannot help but become humble and appreciate...”

“We must find the way of love rather than that of being loved.”

“...living in oneness with Buddhas teaching, is a creative life in which everything becomes meaningful.”

“In the nembutsu we see and feel the Buddha everywhere and in everything. Life itself becomes the unfolding of Buddha”

“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the ri...”

“We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We dont know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and fee...”

“Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if were honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devot...”

“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, youll keep resentment far away.”

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”

“One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.”