• the only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance

• to have faith is to trust yourself to the water. when you swim you don't grap hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. instead you relax, and float

• we cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain

• i have realized that in the past and the future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is

• so then, the relationship of the self to other is the complete realization that loving everything defined as the other than yourself

• in other words, a person who is fanatic in matter of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of god and the universe, become a person who has no faith at all

• the reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. there are great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination

• saint need sinners

• zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about god while one is peeling potatoes. zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes