Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

so, the whole idea, you see, is that everything's falling apart, so don't try and stop it. when you're falling off a precipice, it doesn't do you any good to hang onto a rock that's falling with you. see? but everything is doing that. and so, again, this is another case of our completely wasting our energy in trying to prevent the world from falling apart. don't do it. and then you'll be able to do something interesting with the free energy.