And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

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

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

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

One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.