When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher?The student replied: “Everything!Kobun, paused, then said: “No, you".

There is no growth without risk. There is always something to be gained from any experience. It is up to us to interpret our truth of self.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

Cast off everything/everyone else has known for you./Move gratefully, from these old skins./And this time, if you toughen,/decide/for whom?

I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly.

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

Sinua hengittämällä pidättelen sisälläni asuvaa petoa liikkumasta ja puremasta sisäelimiäni hajalle.

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.

I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.

I’ll wear a maze on a necklace, dangling over my chest, because if you want to get at my heart, you have to be ready to lose yourself.

The woman I was yesterday, introduced me to the woman I am today; which makes me very excited about meeting the woman I will become tomorrow.

If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I’ve got it.I’m a mystic, but only in my body,My soul is simple and doesn’t think.

...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...

the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart...

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.