What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

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

What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

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