Fate whispers to the warrior.
" You cannot withstand the storm"
And the warrior whispers back.
" I am the storm "

"What are you trying to do, Kerouac?" I'd ask myself in my sleepingbag at night, "trying to deny reality with all this Buddha stuff, ya jerk?" … "Poor detailed immaculate incarnate fool, and you call yourself Self … Take off your coat and crash wits." And I realized that all this Buddhism was a STRAIN at telling the untellable emptiness yet that nothing was truer, a perfect paradox."
(Jack Kerouac)

"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”)