Brahman alone is real, the world is the appearance [of Brahman]; and there is ultimately no difference between Brahman and Atman, individual self.

Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

It is your mind that creates the world.

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.

So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.

There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.

Do not spend your time thinking about the world or your relationships to individuals. These are all impermanent. They have only to do with the body.

One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.

A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.

True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea.