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.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.