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.

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

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

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.