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

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

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.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.