Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to understand it and instead just feel it and enjoy it.

I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.

I am still learning and experiencing things and feel like I cannot state a truth. So I guess one truth I know for sure is that I cannot state one. A paradox.

What is truth? I think stating a truth could be dangerous, because we are locking something in and therefore making it harder for ourselves to change beyond that certain thought or concept.

Sometimes we can't help the way we feel, but we can mostly choose how we respond to it.

I try to make sure I have a helpful perspective so when emotional pain comes up, it doesn't get out of hand.

It's difficult to change, because I have to admit that I have been previously living in a less compassionate and loving way. Sometimes we just want to be right instead of fully conscious.

For me, it's the slow release of my ego and certain belief systems that I identify with that give me comfort and an identity, and it's scary to let go of that.

Passion overcomes obstacles.

I believe that the choice not to have a choice is a choice in itself.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

It isn't. The Book of Abraham is not central to the restored gospel of Christ.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

The distortion of the truth bothers me.

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.