Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

The source of all light is in the eye.

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

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.

Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.