We all do “do, re, mi,” but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen—really seen.

Difference between sex and love? Well, you’re not always sure you’re in love. But when you’re having sex, there’s really no mistaking it.

The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.

Let us not listen too much to those who proclaim that the world is at an end. Civilizations do not die so easily, and even if our world were to collapse, it would not have been the first. It is indeed true that we live in tragic times. But too many people confuse tragedy with…

When you laugh, you’re not afraid. And sometimes you laugh because you’re afraid, but when you laugh, the fear goes away. And it’s not just whistling past the graveyard. It actually just goes away when you’re laughing. That’s why I don’t think I could ever stop doing what I’m doing because I laugh all day…

Time carries you along like a river, but never flows out of the present: the more it goes, the more it stays, and you no longer have to fight or kill it.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering in order that they may have existence.

But every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

All the misfortunes of men derive from one single thing, which is their inability to be at ease in a room.

There is nothing to do. Just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say: “be yourself,” since you do not know yourself. Just be. Having seen that you are neither the “outer” world of perceivables, not the “inner” world of thinkable, that you are neither body nor…

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we’re all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

It is not that I understood from the time I was born! After much exploration and guided disciplines, suddenly, in an instant, I knew for myself!

You’re always the person you were when you were born. You just keep finding new ways to express it.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

Only don’t know.

When a sincere man teaches a wrong doctrine, the doctrine becomes truth. When an insincere man expounds a true doctrine, it becomes error.

Life is too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.

Me, you—we’re no more than travelers.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous.

Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.