You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.

Step beyond your role as a perceiver, merge everything into the flux.

The final entrance into Nirvikalpa Samadhi, into nirvana, God-realization, when you become the absolutely best friend of God, can only come when your love is completely pure.

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.