Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon 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. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.