You prefer to use Pavlov for brainwashing, Pavlov for selling cigarettes and vodka and patriotism. Pavlov for the benefit of dictators, generals and tycoons… but Pavlov could be used for good purposes, for friendliness and trust and compassion.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

You only lose what you cling to.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

You often say ; I would give, but only to the deserving. The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture… For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, is but a witness.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge... knowledge should lead to wisdom, and if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time!

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

You neither desire wealth nor greatness; and, indeed, I value and admire such a man much more than I do any of the great men in the world.

You must rise above
The gloomy clouds
Covering the mountaintop
Otherwise, how will you
Ever see the brightness?

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

You must learn not what people around you consider good or bad, but to act in life as your conscience bids you. An untrammelled conscience will always know more than all the books and teachers put together.

You must keep don’t know mind always and everywhere. This is the true practice of Zen.

You must be sure of two things: you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin... You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

You must be emptied of that with which you are full, so you may be filled with that whereof you are empty.

You must always remember that all men are your brothers, down to the vilest and most debased; they are your family and your friends, your fellow-citizens as well. You must be kind therefore, endlessly kind

You might not be aware of your own enlightenment.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends.'

You may think that if there is no purpose or no goal in our practice, we will not know what to do… The way to practice without having any goal is to limit your activity to what you can do just now, in this moment… just concentrate on the activity which we do in each moment.