In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.