It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.

Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.

A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion.