Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Cows scream louder than carrots.