When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.

You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.

The world is the way the world is because we think that it is so.

When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.

Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.

Nothing is here in this world that is of any interest at all.

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.