Science and religion can be united by the realization that life is
an adventure in consciousness.
The zen monk allows the images to come and go; they pass his
all-pervasive wakefulness without leaving emotional traces in his
consciousness.
If we were able to understand sickness and suffering as processes of
physical and psychic transformation... we would gain a deeper and less biased
view of psychosomatic and psychospiritual processes and begin to realize the
many opportunities presented by suffering and death of the ego.