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

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

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

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

You are the universe experiencing itself.