The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.