We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.

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.

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.

The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?

To Zen, time and eternity are one.

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

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.