A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
I owe my solitude to other people.
It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.
Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.
This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.