Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the Weather.
Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
One must give value to one’s existence by behaving as if one’s very existence were a work of art.
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door.
I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.