We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.