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

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

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

You can't make love without art.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion.

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.