The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.

I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.

You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it. You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever it is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing, your hearing, your talking, your thinking, your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars.

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.