Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

The wake doesn't drive the ship

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.