I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.

I don't have faith, I have experience.

All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.