“Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodernthinker.”

“If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening. ”

“Was it better to get as much out of the moment as possible, knowing it could slip out from under you in a second? Was the actual experience better than the inevitable conclusion?”

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

“I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don’t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.”