We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You can't have something without nothing.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.