"[I]t is typical of Zen that its style of action has the strongest feeling of commitment, of "follow-through." It enters into everything wholehearted… - Alan Watts

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Evil” read backwards is “live.” Demon est deus inversus.

Wouldn't it be as farfetched to call birth the cause of death as to call the cat's head the cause of the tail? Lifting the neck of a bottle implies lifting the bottom as well, for the "two parts" come up at the same time. If I pick up an accordion by one end, the other will follow a little later, but the principle is the same. Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe.