If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

- Lin-Chi, The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi

The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, and now also from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists, is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life…in one’s own back yard.

- Abraham Maslow

'Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty.
Cooked people delight in the ordinary.'

~Zen Saying