And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.

And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]