There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."