“Suffering just means youre having a bad dream. Happiness means youre having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.”

“I dont see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.”

“The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, its just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence. Enlightenment isnt in the...”

“The one and only truth of any person lies like a black hole at their very core, and everything else EVERYTHING else is just the rubbish and debris that covers the hole. Of course, to someone whos...”

“The bottom line remains the same: youre either awake or youre not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more battles.”

“Enlightenment is the unprogrammed state.”

“The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)”

“Ego like bile over taste buds. Get it out or hold it in. It's the suspension will drive you nuts, churn your gut.”

“War within ourselves is always a prelude to war outside ourselves. All war starts within our own hearts. When our egos are inflated or our desires insatiable, we go to war with the other for the sa...”

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”