An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
You fear what you cannot name.
He could offer her nothing less than himself.
The best things can't be told. The second best are misunderstood.
American zen is running sideways, writing books, lecturing, referring to theology, psychology and whatnot. Someone should stand up and smash the whole thing to pieces.
Yun-Men held up his staff to the assembly and said: "My staff has been transformed into a dragon and it swallowed the universe. Mountains, rivers, the whole Earth - where are they now?"