Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable.

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.