The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and
then work outward from there.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.
We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.
Is it hard?'
Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.