“When you find peace and quiet in the midst of busyness and clamor, then towns and cities become mountain forests; afflictions are enlightenment, sentient beings realize true awakening.”
-Foyan

"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." 

-Alan Watts

"The infinite is in the finite of every instant."
-Zen Proverb

"Be aware of yourself and know yourself. No matter how much you have learned and how much you know, if you don't know yourself you don't know anything. Indeed, if you don't know yourself you cannot know anything else. People who don't know themselves criticize others from the point of view of their own ignorant selves. They consider whatever agrees with them to be good, and hate whatever doesn't go their way. They become irritated about everything, causing themselves to suffer by themselves, bothering themselves solely because of their own prejudices. If you know that not everyone will be agreeable to you, know that you won't be agreeable to everyone either. Those who have no prejudices in themselves do not reject people, and therefore people do not reject them." 

-Suzuki Shosan

“A Zen’s master life is one continuous mistake.”
-Dogen Zenji

“Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.” 

-Thich Nhat Hanh

"If you use the Mind to study Reality, you won't understand Mind or Reality. If you study Reality without using mind, you'll understand both." 

-Bodhidharma

"The Mind and the world are opposites,
and vision arises where they meet.
When your Mind doesn't stir inside,
the world doesn't arise outside."

-Bodhidharma

"Be humble: In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few."
-Shunryu Suzuki

"It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully."
-Shunryu Suzuki

"The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind."
-Shunryu Suzuki

"The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet."
-Shunryu Suzuki

"Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation — all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don’t spread your attachment to worldly things."

-Osho

"Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality."
-Hui Neng