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"dreams are highly flammable things and suggest that you ask yourself, really ask yourself, why you’re reading books about setting your world on fire."

"What is the difference between a man going to a bar for a glass of beer, and a man going to a temple and repeating the name of Rama? I don’t see any basic difference."

"I’m not a counselor or a mentor. I’m not interested in helping anyone feel better. I’m no one’s friend. I dwell in an infinite pitiless void. Or, to state it more accurately, I am an infinite pitiless void. That’s my reality. I’m not a nice guy, I just play one."

"but by then ego will have seized upon it like white blood cells swarming an invasive microbe that threatens the organism, and tonight’s penetrating insights will be tomorrow’s mildly interesting spiritual anecdote."

"If you think about the qualities you’d like to possess—unconditional love, loyalty, devotion, unwavering friendship, forgiveness, selflessness, sincerity, being fully present in the moment —qualities we uphold as the loftiest ideals they look very much like, you know, A GOOD DOG

"Opinions! Jesus, where did I get all those idiotic opinions? I wore them like a little girl wears her mother’s make-up and costume jewelry. “Look at me! I have a unique opinion! Look at my wonderful opinion! Look how special I am! I’ll admire yours if you admire mine!”

"These are my demons, but they weren’t demons when I let them in, they were cuddly little bundles of warmth and happiness and safety. But now that I want to get to the heart of things, they are tenacious little monsters and each must be ruthlessly slain."

"Our primary method for understanding life, is really our way of walling ourselves off from it. We translate the world into our artificial language of symbols and concepts in order to avoid knowing it directly."