The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.