Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.