Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

The menu is not the meal.

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.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.