The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.