...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

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.

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.