Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has been given to you by others - if you drop all that has been given by others, you will have a totally different quality to your being: innocence. This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality, and there will be a resurrection of your innocence. You will become a child again, reborn.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.
Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.
You are never given a wish without being given
the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One
Worry does not remove the sorrow of tomorrow; it removes the strength of today.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
We are imagining that we are bound and are making various strenuous attempts to become free, while we are all the time free.
No rose is without thorns.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Learning is movement from moment to moment
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
