Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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.

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.