To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.