...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

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.

The mind's the standard of the man.

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

What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.