Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes. I feel a deep sorrow that my kids will never get to see what I've seen, and their kids will see nothing; there's a deep sadness whenever I look at nature now.

In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once.

Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.

The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.

The purpose of our life is to help others through it.