Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which w….

Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows natu….

You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody. Yet..

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, b….

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality..

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study o….

How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolut….

I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics...What's happen….

Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditati….

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness..

A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If o….

I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of th….

The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly..

... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so ….

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell..

Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropolo….

Quality isn't a thing. It is an event..

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there..

Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to list….

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..

A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books appear al….