Shunryu SuzukiThinkers

A Beginner is one in whose mind there are many possibilities, while in the expert's mind there are few.

Life is stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

Wabi is spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion and imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.