Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.

By `God` I mean godliness; the whole existence is full of godliness. And when you will come to know, you will not see a god standing before you, you will see the trees as divine, the rocks as divine, the people as divine, the animals as divine. God is spread all over the place, from the pebble to the star, from the blade of grass to the sun - it is all divine.

A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.

The future of humanity will move closer and closer toward the approach of Zen, because the meeting of the East and West is possible only through something like Zen, which is earthly and yet unearthly.

When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you.