“The total man working with what is, being one with it and in no way obscuring it or interfering with it, is not a worker of miracles like walking on the water or raising people from the dead. He knows nothing of death, but much of life, of its joys and sorrows, its beauty and ugliness. Though he can, and does, work ‘miracles’, they are entirely human; his heart is open, his total love and compassion soften sorrow and ugliness at a touch; his bliss-bestowing hands lift up his fellow beings, and less by words than by being what and as he is, he points the Way for those who wish to tread it […] This is the way of the Heart, as old as man, which can be walked by all who are so inclined. It is always available and leads to that ancient city, the full human Heart, which is also the Buddha Heart.”
- Irmgard Schloegl, The Zen Way
