The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

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

Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.

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

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

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.