At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

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.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.