If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their noble, distant goal, and never notice any of the crud and debris they leave behind them.

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

Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.

Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece. That is so historically, and that is so by any application of common sense. The poetry and myths are the response of a prehistoric people to the Universe around them made on the basis of Quality. It is Quality, not dialectic, which is the generator of everything we know.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.