Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.