“Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.”
“You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever.”
“A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world in which all good actions become more efficacious.”
“The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.”
“"With so many egotists and liars in the world the truth becomes an ever more rare and valuable commodity.”
“Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected.”