To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.