When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb…

- D.T. Suzuki

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of lif…

- D.T. Suzuki

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

- D.T. Suzuki

The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.

- D.T. Suzuki

To live - is that not enough?

- D.T. Suzuki

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

- D.T. Suzuki

When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness …

- D.T. Suzuki

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That …

- D.T. Suzuki

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the b…

- D.T. Suzuki