You can't have something without nothing.

To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.