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

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

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.