‘common sense’ is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of ghosts from the past.

The best ones always connect nowhere with nowhere.

The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of the mountain, or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

The doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.

The ego-climber is like an instrument that’s out of adjustment… What he’s looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn’t want that because it *is* all around him… he imagines his goal to be external and distant.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty

The pencil is mightier than the pen.

Imitation is a real evil that has to be broken before real teaching can begin… Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade… in college, you are supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality… the moment of vision before intellectualization

It's the style that gets you; technological ugliness syruped over with romantic phoniness in an effort to produce beauty and profit

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

The way to solve the conflict between human values and technological needs is not to run away from technology but to break down the barrier of dualistic thought and understand technology for what it is—a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both.

One thing about pioneers that you don’t hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers.

People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands… the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.

A slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, ‘If you don’t whip me, I won’t work.’ He didn’t get whipped. He didn’t work.

The idea that ‘all men are created equal’ is a gift to the world from the American Indian.

The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

Out of college, money spent, see no future, pay no rent...

One sweet dream came true today, came true today...