The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts

Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

To Zen, time and eternity are one.