The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.

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

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.

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

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.

Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.