The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

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

Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

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

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.