I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life

You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The 'waiting to start living' syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

If you knew the true nature of your existence, you could play the drama of life whichever way you want, to whatever extent you want.

Our own life has to be our message.

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.

Every second a seeker can start over, for his life's mistakes are initial drafts and not the final version.

Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.

How deeply you touch another life is how rich your life is.

Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.

Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.

How healthy and strong a body you have and how dynamic and sharp a mind is what will take you through life.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

If you want to be happy in life, you have to renounce the fruits of your actions.