The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.

A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.

If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.

Division and differentiation are the processes by which things are created. Since things are emerging and dissolving all the time, you cannot specify the point when this division will stop.

To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.

I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. Isummoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind.

Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.

We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

Breathing is optional, but I need some air.

Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears.

All of the larger than life questions about our presence here on earth and what gifts we have to offer are spiritual questions. To seek answers to these questions is to seek a sacred path.

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.