The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.

The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT.

The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.