You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

Pain is weakness leaving your body.