It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.

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.

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.