Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

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.

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.