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.

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

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

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

If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.