The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

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

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

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