“You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.”

“How can something that doesn’t exist in physicalform have influence over the things that do?”

“What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If itmeans to do what you think you ought to do, then you’redoing that already. If it means to act like you’re exemptfrom society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in theworld; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes.The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But ourbrains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortableto believe we have a strategy for life than to believewe have no idea how to behave.”

“I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.”

“Awareness is about unlearning. It is the recognitionthat you don’t know as much as you thought you knew.”

“Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.”

“Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.”