To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

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

These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.

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

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.