No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

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

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.