Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.