The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.