The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.