The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

The establishment of inner harmony is to be attained neither in the past nor in the future, but where the past and future meet, which is the now. When you have attained that point, neither future nor past, neither birth nor death, neither time nor space exist. It is that NOW which is liberation, which is perfect harmony, to which the men of the past and the men of the future must come.

Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.

We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust.

What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.