When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.