Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.
The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.
That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.
There is a joy in the actual taste of vanilla ice cream that does not come from knowing the chemical formula of vanilla. There is a joy, an inherent aliveness in the body that you can experience if you pay attention to your body. But if you live up in your head, in your words all the time, you don't notice it.
In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.
If you are just having unusual experiences and feeling special–especially if you feel better than everybody else–I think that is a dangerous thing.
If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
The worst thing I ever wore, really, was rubber pants, but I don't think that was a cliche. They were just way too hot. Rubber doesn't breathe. I look back on my photos, and I dig them. I think I look really cool.
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.