Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Society is our extended mind and body.

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.