A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.