• And go off somewhere and find great solitude and look into the perfect emptiness of my mind and be completely neutral from any and all ideas. I intended to pray, to, as my only activity, pray for all living creatures; I saw it was the only decent activity left in the world.
• Un satori est un éclair dans la nuit de nos pensées, une porte qui s'ouvrirait en nous, pour nous mener à un pays où le bonheur a été de s'apercevoir que tout n'est qu'un grand et vaste rêve. Ce satori peut survenir lors d'une phrase de quelqu'un, n'importe qui, à la vision d'une oeuvre - naturelle ou humaine -, lors d'un repas, n'importe quand. Il suffit d'ouvrir son coeur au ressentir des choses en tant qu'elles-mêmes et pas uniquement en se basant sur nos perceptions. Je ne puis être plus clair que les maîtres japonais qui l'ont expliqué, tant mon expérience en est limitée. Mais j'espère que vous avez, encore une fois, saisi l'idée.

1 Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy2 Submissive to everything, open, listening3 Try never get drunk outside yr own house4 Be in love with yr life5 Something that you feel will find its own form6 Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind7 Blow as deep as you want to blow8 Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind9 The unspeakable visions of the individual10 No time for poetry but exactly what is11 Visionary tics shivering in the chest12 In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you13 Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition14 Like Proust be an old teahead of time15 Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog16 The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye17 Write in recollection and amazement for yourself18 Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea19 Accept loss forever20 Believe in the holy contour of life21 Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind22 Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better23 Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning24 No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge25 Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it26 Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form27 In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness28 Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better29 You’re a Genius all the time30 Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

Happiness lies in realizing it is all a great strange dream.