Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.