Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

Think with the whole body.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant