There is obviously a place in life for a religious attitude for awe and astonishment at existence. That is also a basis for respect for existence. We don't have much of it in this culture, even though we call it materialistic. In this culture we call materialistic, today we are of course bent on the total destruction of material and its conversion into junk and poisonous gases. This is of course not a materialistic culture because it has no respect for material. And respect is in turn based on wonder.

Life is a game, the first rule of which is that IT IS NOT A GAME.

Zen ... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Camus said there is only really one serious philosophical question, which is whether or not to commit suicide. I think there are four or five serious philosoph…

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wond…