You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.

You do have an effect on the universe. If you think positive thoughts, if you are happy and progressive, then that energy affects everyone on the whole planet, in subtle ways, perhaps, but it does.

There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.

There are millions of little opportunities out there to advance yourself. But you need the personal power to see how to do it.

There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.

You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one singular self. You're a corporation.

In Zen we have no gurus.