Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

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

These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.