“The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph.D. In waking up.”

“Wake up first. Wake up, and then you can double back and perhaps be of some use to others if you still have the urge. Wake up first, with pure and unapologetic selfishness, or you’re just another shipwreck victim floundering in the ocean and all the compassion in the world is of absolutely no use to the other victims floundering around you.”

“It is your show.It is your universe.There is no one else here, just you,and nothing is being withheld from you.You are completely on your own.Everything is available for direct knowing.No one else has anything you need.No one else can lead you, pull you, push you or carry you.”

“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.”

“Enlightenment isn’t when you go there; it’s when there comes here.”

“It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.”

“Enlightenment is the unprogrammed state.”