Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.

If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.

You can't make a date with enlightenment.

If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.