There is a famous expression in Zen: 'On the way without leaving home.' Life is a journey and, in that sense, man is always on the way. But the person who has realized the Primal Face of his True Self never leaves home. He is able to be on a journey while having, at the same time, the peace of mind he experiences in his own home.

Enlightenment is not viewing the universal principles as objects; rather, it is becoming aware of them in one's living self. Thus kenshō (literally, seeing into your nature) is not seeing your True Nature as an object; rather, the True Nature becomes the thing seeing.

[W]hile all things are separate from each other, they are the appearances of oneness itself.

If we are able to become one with God through complete abandonment of self, it will be easy to see that all being is one in God.

Most people, when they hear 'No-mind', think it means to become unfeeling, like a rock or a tree. [...] No-mind means not to fix the mind anywhere.

Conversion is not just the puny act of repenting for the sins of the past: it is to turn in the direction of an entirely new reality, the 'kingdom of God', and throw oneself into creating a new way of life.