This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

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.

Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.