The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.