The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Doubt is the thing that’ll kill you, the only thing, and it’ll kill your friends, too.

...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men

Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

It's much too late to save myself from falling.

Did you play? It sounded very good.

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.