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"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."

"This isn’t how you surrender the self, this is how you abandon it; abdicate responsibility for your own life. I understand this can be a very tempting response to a very perplexing challenge."

"You’re clinging desperately to your lies; shielding them with emotional energy. Why? Because these lies are you. They are who you are. You don’t have imperfections, you ARE imperfections."

"You want a friend? A companion? Let death be your companion. That’s the one thing you really have, the one thing that’s really yours, that no one can take away.”