No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.