Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.

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

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.