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?

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

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.

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

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.