Life is one continuous mistake. 

Dogen

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Pema Chodron

Life is like getting into a boat that's just about to sail out to sea and sink. 

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.  

P.D. Oupensky

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

Pema Chodron

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.

Pema Chodron

If you accept them, things are just as they are.  If you do not accept them, things are just as they are.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi

To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

Dogen

What is Reality?  An icicle forming in fire.

Dogen

A flower falls, even though we love it, and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Dogen

We would rather be ruined than changed, we would rather die in our dread

Than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Auden