But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

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.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

I owe my solitude to other people.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

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

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.