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

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

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

The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.