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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?
Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.
You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.
How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.
The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.
For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.
Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.
Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.
No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.
...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.
The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.
What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.
You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.
Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.
Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.
We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.
To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.