Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.