“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot”
“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
“As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.”
“In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.”
“Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.”
“Rather than thinking in terms of good and bad, it is more helpful to think in terms of conscious and unconscious, aware, and unaware.”