“Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.”
“Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage.”
“There is probably nothing harder than seeming sincere when your heart is broken. And sincerity, as problematic as the word may appear to you, is also the basis of teaching. You can't pretend for long.”
“Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?""Yes, sir, it has.""Then why do you do it?""To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.”
“A brick could be used to assuage your sense that life isn't real. Hold it in your hands and say, This is not a dream. ”
“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”