“You are at war with yourself. Your personality is home to two warring egos, one is evil and imprisoned in the shadows, and the other is good and free in the light. Inside sanity is madness.”

“Life’s most precious gifts are not found by searching and struggling, but by waiting. Surfers don’t make waves. They just wait, and the waves come to them.”

“Why is fast good and slow bad? Why is new good and old bad? Why is forward good and backward bad? Why is tomorrow good and yesterday bad?”

“Are you afraid of who you really are? Do you fear life? Do you fear death? Are you afraid of being afraid? Fear not!”

“Do you fear freedom, conformity, individuality, personhood, or parenthood? Fear not!”

“Our mind deceives us. What we refer to as the present is really the past. Prayer is unnecessary, since even before we pray, our prayers already have been answered.”

“In a game, winning is everything. But how does one win at life? The game of life is filled with suffering, the future is uncertain, and things just happen for no reason.”

“Solipsism is so convincing, there should be more solipsists. What you think, becomes. Nothing exists separate from the awareness it appears within. You are the only consciousness that you can be sure of. For all practical purposes, you are God.”

“What must you do to be a good person? You cannot apply one ancient rule to everything that happens to you, no matter how golden it is. Figuring out right from wrong is complicated. It’s up to you. Do nothing that does not agree with your reason, wisdom, and experience.”

“Do you live in a just world? Is your life fair or unfair? We must believe in a just world or life is not worth living. Yet, it is nonsense to ask questions that lie outside the world as these are unaskable and unanswerable.”