“The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The ...”

“It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had sp...”

“Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. Thi...”

“In his first summers, forsaking all his toys, my son would stand rapt for nearly an hour in his sandbox in the orchard, as doves and redwings came and went on the warm wind, the leaves dancing, the...”

“My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with present time. Thought and action are not different, and stone, air, ice,...”

“In the book of Job, the Lord demands, Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?I was there!-surely that is the answer to Gods question. For no matter how the universe came into bein...”

“The children of Spirit are laughing, cursing, chatting, walking and running. They ooze holiness in all that they are and do.”

“The pleasure of sins is pain in the soul.”

“Reject sin, seek righteousness.”

“None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.”

“...looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. Ones own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.”

“[F]or what in this world is worth doing that doesn't require a portion of one's body and soul?”