"I am a person living in the world, the world is angry so I can be angry, the world laughs so I can laugh. We are not brick Bhikkhus or cement Bhikkhus."
(Ajahn Maha Boowa)

"What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? What's earth? All in the mind."
(Jack Kerouac)

"Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume..."
(Jack Kerouac)

“In the area of the world, you have things that you have. In the area of the Dhamma, you have something you don’t have.”
(Ajahn Dune)

"One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls" .

(Jack Karouac “The Dharma Bums”)

"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)