Zen The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. [An allusion to a popular saying by Zen master Shunryu Suzuki: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”] —Commencement address, Stanford University, June 12, 2005
