If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.