...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

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

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

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