"The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization."
(Joseph Campbell)

"I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions."
(Jack Kerouac)

"It is true, the Zen-man’s contempt for conventional and formalistic social custom is a healthy phenomenon, but it is healthy only because it presupposes a spiritual liberty based on freedom from passion, egotism and self-delusion. A pseudo-Zen attitude which seeks to justify a complete moral collapse with a few rationalizations based on the Zen Masters is only another form of bourgeois self-deception."
(Thomas Merton)

"The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is."
(Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

"If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence."
(Charles Bukowski)

"There are quiet places also in the mind', he said meditatively. 'But we build bandstands and factories n them. Deliberately — to put a stop to the quietness."

(Aldous Huxley)

"You'll be sorry some day. Why don't you ever understand what I'm trying to tell you: it's with your six sense that you're fooled into believing not only that you have six senses, but that you contact an actual outside world with them. If it wasn't for your eyes, you wouldn't see me. If it wasn't for your ears, you wouldn't hear that airplane. If it wasn't for your nose, you wouldn't smell that midnight mint. If it wasn't for your tongue taster, you wouldn't taste the difference between A and B. If it wasn't for your body, you wouldn't feel Princess. There is no me, no airplane, no mind, no Princess, no nothing, you for krissakes do you want to go on being fooled every damn minute of your life?"
(Jack Kerouac)

"An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way."
(Charles Bukowski)

"HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity."
(Alice Walker)