But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us.

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.

In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for their own interests and pleasures or for those of their own family or group, and therefore they are constantly interfering with one another's aims, and hurting one another and injuring one another, whether they mean it or not.