If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained - though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.