Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.

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