Personal Growth

Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Don't think, feel....it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!
The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego.