The destination of life is this eternal moment.

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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

There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.