To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, ""Go away, I'm looking for the truth,"" and so it goes away. Puzzling.

The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there

Когда навязчивые иллюзии появляются у одного человека, это сумасшествие. Когда они появляются сразу у многих, это религия.

An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation

That's the way it is. The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die

Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought

If you eliminate suffering from this world you eliminate life. There's no evolution. Those species that don't suffer don't survive. Sometimes the insane and the contrarians and the ones who are the closest to suicide are the most valuable people society has. They may be the precursors of social change. They've taken the burdens of the culture onto themselves and in their struggle to solve their own problems they're solving problems for the culture as well

Within the classic mode, however, the romantic has some appearances of his own. Frivolous, irrational, erratic, untrustworthy, interested primarily in pleasureseeking. Shallow. Of no substance. Often a parasite who cannot of will not carry his own weight. A real drag on society.