......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.

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

If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.