What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.

…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.

The more you look, the more you see.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

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.

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

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