We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.