Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
So then the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
But to me nothing – the negative the empty – is exceedingly powerful.
In known history nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
You are that vast thing that you see far far off with great telescopes.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a 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.
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
The style of God venerated in the church mosque or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
But at any rate the point is that God is what nobody admits to being and everybody really is.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
