“It’s when we limit our choices that we begin to hone in on what we really want to do. This gives us direction – but what if we choose to do something that doesn’t turn out the way we thought we were directed? Then we deal with that until the next choice. In a sense, every day we get to redefine ourselves. Of course, that definition gets to be redefined in its time. And that’s how we keep evolving.”

“So how do we do this trip, knowing it’s all an illusion? How do we do that? We can’t do that. We can only hang on for the ride.”

“It’s hard to trust our own decisions, but we have no options. We have to do that in order to be all right with ourselves.”

“Obsessing about things isn’t good for you. It’s a form of possessing things and at some level of awareness; we possess nothing. That’s how we get free of being possessed by our possessions.”

“It‘s all a dream, until we realize that it is all a dream. Until then, we need to participate in the dream as if it were real … if we choose.”

“In a sense, all life is a prank. We are not who we appear to be and no one else is as they appear to be. So how can we handle that little mystery? This whole business about God – what’s that all about? No one knows anything about that either. So we have people who are not as they appear to be, telling us about something that they have no idea about. We really are on our own here to try and figure it out. That’s the real adventure of it. Some people are anxious to tell you what they know and have experienced. I’d rather hear from some people who admit to what they don’t know and haven’t experienced. They’re much more interesting.”

“Everything that has happened to us up to this point is, in a sense, our history, yet it’s a total mysterious mystery. How can we diffuse the emotions? We do this by taking away the devotion to drama. All drama leads to more karma. Don’t be a karma farmer.”