To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.

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.

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.