But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

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

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.