“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.”

“May we be free of the tyranny of our expectations of others.”

“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...”

“...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”

“The absence of self-love can never be replaced with the presence of people's love for you.”

“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...”