We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die..

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies..

The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. But b….

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world..

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I mu….

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain..

Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried, or that the world is ….

I, for instance, regard any particular man as finite, as one who has had a beginning and who will have an end. He has been born, and he is going to d….

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth..

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic..

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities..

We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds..

Any experience of reality is indescribable!.

One cannot say everything at once..

Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprisi….

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen..

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark ….

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love..

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone wh….

Man as seen as an organism or man as seen as a person discloses different aspects of the human reality to the investigator. Both are quite possible m….

I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not..