As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was Buddha's teacher?" He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.