The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.

The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.