“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”

“And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words ― We will pass just as quietly through life (passing through, passing through) as the 10th century people of this valley only with a little more noise and a few bridges and dams and bombs that wont even last a million years ― The world being just what it is, moving and passing through, actually alright in the long view and nothing to complain about.”

“This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.”

“It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.”

“But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the in­comparable pretties of Indian Mexico.”

“After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.”

“It's only through form that we can realize emptiness”