David Foster Wallace

Need a whole new syntax for fatigue on days like this.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.

Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it’s important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Zen is not an art, it’s not a religion. It’s a realisation.

Zen has no business with ideas.

Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it’ll happen.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?