There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.

Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?