People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

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

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.