The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is ….

In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned cheeks. th….

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not,….

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longi….

Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous.

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried….

In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once..

Be light, light, light - full of light!.

The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears fr….

I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the….

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..

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

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.….

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

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

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

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….

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

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….