Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

I realised that if I wanted to carry on with my musical dreams, I had to change, so I started meditating, and I changed my life entirely.

The best way to create spectacular results in the most important areas of your life is through daily practice

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one

PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

As you take steps to expand your awareness, you will naturally find yourself harnessing your mind's infinite power to create greater health, happiness, and love in your life.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Lord I'm Doing All I Can To Be A Better Man.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Yoga probably makes me a better person.

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.