To live - is that not enough?

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct way possible, without resorting to anything external or superadded. Therefore, anything that has the semblance of an external authority is rejected by Zen. Absolute faith is placed in a man's own inner being. For whatever authority there is in Zen, all comes from within.

Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden