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"They’re just exploring the ego—making a study of the false self—which is a lifequest as valid as any other. But you don’t wake up by perfecting your dream character"

"That’s why depression can be perfectly rational response to a highly irrational situation—namely, life—especially when the depression revolves around futility or insignificance. After all, you can’t be much more futile or insignificant than a character in a dream"

"Church membership. Education, politics, hobbies, beliefs, opinions. These are all the things that require your energy. If you stop putting your energy into cleaning the house, then you can no longer define yourself as a good housekeeper.”

"We’re all afloat in a boundless sea, and the way we cope is by massing together in groups and pretending in unison that the situation is other than it is. That’s what a society really is, a little band of humanity huddled together against the specter of a pitch black sea."

"Lao Tzu said that what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the rest of the world calls a butterfly." "Wake up and smell the coffin. The building has always been on fire, you were just repressing that knowledge until now. There is no exit."

“And you’re completely alone in all this. There’s no rescue. Your office is engulfed in flames and there’s no one here to save you. Not Jesus or Buddha or the Pope or your mama. This is your dissatisfaction. This is your problem. This is your agony.”

"When you become so dissatisfied with your office that the hundred story plummet and the sidewalk seem like the better option, so dissatisfied that you actually hurl yourself out the window, then you know the level of dissatisfaction necessary to awaken from delusion."

"Ego clings to a teacher like a drowning man clings to a log. The teacher is beloved the way the log is beloved. The teaching is sacred the way the log is sacred. The log is the savior, saving us from sinking into the cold black depths."