Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.

The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.

Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.

To identify yourself with your personality is more or less a reflex. You must see, when the reflex comes up, that it is a kind of feeling of insecurity; you are looking for a hold.

The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.

It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

because daytime leaves vampires less than, well, conscious, I told him, “Take your muffins to Boston and shut it, Terrance.” And then I hung up on him.

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.

The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.

Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.

Sorry. An overdeveloped nurturing instinct comes with being a healer.

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

I can endure more pain then anyone you've met. That's why I win, because I can endure more pain.