In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us..

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress..

The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent….

Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past.….

The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found w….

The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "mea….

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be..

The purpose of our life is to help others through it..

If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us..

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the….

I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of the koan, this one i….

When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral ….

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that ….

I ... had what Kierkegaard called 'the sickness of infinitude,' wandering from one path to another with no real recognition that I was embarked upon ….

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth..

My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending..

Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road..

I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to ste….

Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this pure action, ….

It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through th….

The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself..