The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.