The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

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

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained - though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.