Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was Buddha's teacher?" He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover.

I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.