Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was Buddha's teacher?" He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.