To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.

The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.