Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

I was sitting outside in our backyard on a summer day, I was around six, and suddenly the whole world dissolved before my eyes and I found myself in a timeless world of light.

How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.

Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.

Reincarnation doesn't simply mean that at the end of this life you will move on to another life in another body, it means that the spirit of life is continually renewing itself and moving to a higher level.

Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.

Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.