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

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

The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.

Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.

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

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.