At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

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.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.