We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

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

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.