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“Growing might feel like breaking at first.”

“When you are wrong, admit it. When you are right, be quiet.”

“Everything's destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born.”

“Not knowing is the atmosphere from which wisdom springs forth.”

“Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.”

“It seems that the majority of men are suggestible, half-awake children, willing to surrender their will to anyone who speaks with a voice that is threatening or sweet enough to sway them. Indeed, he who has a conviction strong enough to withstand the opposition of the crowd is the exception rather than the rule, an exception often admired centuries later, mostly laughed at by his contemporaries.”

“The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.”

“All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.”

“Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.”

“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
through the facade of pretence. It's the
complete eradication of everything we
imagined to be true.”

“Confidence is not a blind belief in success. Comfidence is a comfort with the possibility of failure.”

“Pain is not the real problem; the real problem is our thinking about pain, our resistance to it, our attempt to escape it and get to an (imaginary) future.”

“Sometimes you have to break a little more to heal a little more.”

“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”

“Happiness is like being cool: the harder you try the less it's going to happen. So stop trying. Start living.”

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”

“When someone tells you, “I love you,” and then you feel, “Oh, I must be worthy after all,” that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, “I hate you,” and you think, “Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,” that’s not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, “I love you,” he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, “I hate you,” she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views—literally.”

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”

“I'm just an alcoholic who became a writer so that I would be able to stay in bed until noon.”