What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way in dancing, you don't aim at one particular spot in the room... The whole point of dancing is the dance.

I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was Buddha's teacher?" He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover.

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.