Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'

Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'

The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.

The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.