Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.

Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.