The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained - though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.