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

The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

The wake doesn't drive the ship

You can't have something without nothing.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

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.