 You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. |
| Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. |
| Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. |
| Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. |
| How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. |
| If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. |
| But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. |
| 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. |
