“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.”

“As you think and act, so your world becomes.”

“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.”

“My belief is the belief of no beliefs. That's my belief.”

“Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken.”

“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.”

“It is only path bending. Don't let it be mind bending.”

“We find what's in our own heads.”

“Success doesn't come to you you go to it. ”

“This would be a secret that I would carry with me, until the day I died.”

“Stand in your own two shoes.”