“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.”

“Its ego the false self that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.”

“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.”

“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give ...”

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

“By embracing your subconscious, you gain a different way of seeing and experiencingan expanded perception that opens a doorway, not only to lucid dreams, but also to the mythic dimension. As in lu...”

“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...”

“I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yours...”

“Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.”

“If there is one ruler that can harmonize and unify the mob of characters [in our astral body], it is the Ego (the Higher Ego, or Self, or Spirit). The more the Ego shines like a sun at the center o...”