The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it’s no help to cling to the rocks falling with you.

Light, too, is not pure light, but light/darkness.

the more surely the future is known, the less surprise and the less fun in living it.

like climbing up the signpost instead of following the road.

Faith is, above all, open-ness—an act of trust in the unknown.

the thesis is that the prevalent sensation of oneself as a separate ego enclosed in a bag of skin is a hallucination which accords neither with Western science nor with the experimental philosophy-religions of the East—in particular the central and germinal Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism. This hallucination underlies the misuse of technology for th

But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies. Take away the crest of the wave, and there is no trough.

the very things that we believe to exist are always on/offs. Ons alone and offs alone do not exist.