The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.

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.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.