A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.