The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive..

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces..

The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of larg….

There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can ….

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control.

Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do.

... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the worl….

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!.

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of….

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting..

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason..

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way..

Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of socializat….

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it..

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die..

When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to be….

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete..

An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, ….

A warrior seeks to act rather than talk..

The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in sp….

It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysteri….