What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

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.