« `The individual` is free when he is himself while not being himself. He who does not understand this apparent contradiction cannot speak of freedom, responsibility or spontaneity. »

« ... those who did not suffer from well-defined symptoms but from general discomfort. To effect a change that makes sense, they would have had to be able to see what an unsane person is and what a life centred on being and not on having or using it means. But such intuition would have required a radical critique of the society in which they lived, of its obvious and above all hidden norms and principles; it should have been the courage to make comforting and protective ties and thus be in a minority. This would have required more psychoanalysts, who themselves are not caught up in the psychological and spiritual confusion of an industrialized and cyber-netidized life. »

« It was neither his philosophical training, nor his moral austerity, nor his asceticism that ultimately brought the Buddha to his enlightenment. The Buddha only attained it after renouncing all these superficial practices that form the circle of external circumstances of our lives. Intellectualism, conceptions, moralism are only necessary to achieve their own limitations. The exercise of the koan aims to bring all this into our deep interiority. »