Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.