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

The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.

You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.