It is the delighted self-recognition of one's own absurdity, and a loving cynicism with respect to one's own pretentious.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious.

The psychotherapist tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world of social convention but not of the world.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wuh-shih or 'no-fuss.'

But to me nothing, the negative, the empty, is exceedingly powerful.

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is.

If you insist on being determined by the past, that’s your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad, or advantageous, but what is.

Nothing fails like success.