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

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

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

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.