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

Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!

Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

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

Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.