Peace

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.

Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Winter seclusion - listening, that evening, to the rain in the mountain.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond—splash! Silence again.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

I never really liked cities. The countryside was much good enough for anybody.

It is difficult to improve on silence.

I am in the world, like water in water.

America is not slick and Steve McQueen or the World Series, it's chapel windows with the sun coming through, the Mexican pea-blue glimmering in the concrete half-light. It is the way things should be.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of the world is still. If you can hold still, then you can hear things that you don't ordinarily hear.

In the world of words, we find solace for the soul and refuge for the heart.