Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .

Problems created by ignorance are always solved by information. The best information is an inspiration that brings an end to the belief “it’s impossible”!

Everything is connected

All that ye potentially possess can…be manifested only as a result of your own volition.”Bahá’u’lláh

There's this magical sense of possibility that stretches like a bridge between June and August. A sense that anything can happen.

In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation

When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.