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

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion.