The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way in dancing, you don't aim at one particular spot in the room... The whole point of dancing is the dance.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.