Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouaclisten to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot
Jack KerouacSure baby, maรฑana. It was always maรฑana. For the next few weeks that was all I heardโโmaรฑana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.
Jack KerouacHere I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back
Jack KerouacYour mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.
Jack Kerouac