Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

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