Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.