I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.

Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.

At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.

I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you've had.

The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.