The mind can go anywhere it wishes. You need not go with it. The mind can entertain any thoughts that it wishes. They have nothing to do with you. For you are not the mind. (Page 11)
Death Makes Life Electric
If you knew that you were going to die tomorrow, today would be the most blissful day of your life. All things would immediately explode into perspective. The insignificant elements of your life would immediately drop away. Because you would no longer have the luxury of time. Man is by nature an 11th hour creature. It is only when he is threatened with everything that he decides to do anything. Break through the illusion that you have time. See all of the names in the obituaries and cemeteries, and KNOW that YOU are next!... Understand that you have a finite number of breaths left in your lungs. (Page 167)
Kill Your Manufactured Self
The greatest freedom that we have is the freedom to walk away from ourselves. The day that you walk away from yourself, you no longer feel the need for happiness. For bliss has become yours… Why? Because there is no longer any burden to carry. There is no great master to take care of. You are absolved of your responsibilities. You are now officially off duty. You are free to dance in the fields. And roam in the hills. In becoming nothing, you have gained everything. (Page 54)
The Future Is a A Mirage
You live your entire life in a state of Eventually. You live forever looking deep into the distant horizon. And every ship that crawls upon the horizon generates a hope in you... And as you wait, your life passes you by. (Page 141)
Problems Are Your Comfort Zone
All your problems, your disappointments, your guilt, your worries... could disappear in an instant. But... who would you be without them? [...] Human beings have a habit of creating problems for themselves to add meaning to their lives. And the reason they seek meaning is because they have not lived life at all. (Page 154)
Experience Exists Beyond Thought
If you think about something as you are looking at it, you will not have truly seen it. Thought stands as a barrier between You and the Experience. When One Experiences, there is no thought. When there is no thought, there is no mind. (Page 104)
Meaninglessness Is Freedom
You can create anything you wish In Your Life. But you will never make anything out of life. For life will always be life: Meaningless. Innocent. And Indefinable. (Page 66)
Create From Joy, Not For Joy
The child who twirls in the rain has no purpose for doing it. The running and jumping and the playing is not done for meaning or purpose. It is an expression of the elation within. It is not done For Joy. It is done Out of Joy. (Page 65)
Pursuit of Happiness Guarantees Suffering
Do not make the mistake of believing that happiness and turmoil, and pain and pleasure are opposites. For I assure you they are not. If you are happy, don't get too excited, for misery is just around the corner. And if you are unhappy, fear not, for happiness is on its way. (Page 58)
Be Nothing, Gain Everything
The non-You will require no maintenance. No care. No adornment. You will blend into the ether. You will be free of all that has ever concerned you. Because you will finally be free of the You that brought about all the concerns. May you never be Yourself again. (Page 46)
