Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.