Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.
Sexual intercourse. . . a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.
I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.
That is [liberalism's] goal - to destroy the family [liberals] just made up this gay marriage thing gays are natural conservatives.
We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.