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No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.
In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?
Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.
If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.
You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.
A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.
Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.
A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.
When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.
The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.
Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.
You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.
The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.
A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.
In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.