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.

One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.

How far have I to go to find you in whom I have already arrived.

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.

If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."