"Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure…"

"The progress of the sciences toward theories of fundamental unity, cosmic symmetry (as in the unified field theory) —…"

"The ancient intuition that all matter, all “reality,” is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are me…"

"In another life — this isn’t what I know, but how I feel — these mountains were my home; there is a rising of forgott…"

"Zen has been called the "religion before religion," which is to say that anyone can practice, including those committ…"

"I have often tried to isolate that quality of "Zen" which attracted me so powerfully to its literature and later to t…"

"A Mahayana teaching with a strong Taoist infusion, Ch'an or Zen cast off the dead weight of priestly ritual and mindl…"

"When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we a…"

"I am a writer. A fiction writer who also writes nonfiction on behalf of social and environmental causes or journals a…"

"Many great writers inspired me, of course, but inspiration is not the same as a direct influence. I was often stirred…"