"At the next meal, I was head server—tears were pouring down my face as I served... and afterwards, when I went out of the Zen do, there was a tree there, and looking at the tree, I didn't feel I was the tree; it went deeper than that. I felt the birds on me, all separation was completely gone."
"I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn't matter what we're doing or talking about, it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything."
"Well, said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called."
"We must always be on the lookout for perverse dynamic processes which carry even good things to excess. It is precisely these excesses which become the most evil things in the world. The devil, after all, is a fallen angel."
"Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever."
