What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

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.