Pleasure is not a need, but an incentive.

Reality is at least a billion trillions times less malleable than our desires.

A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.

A thing or situation is often worsened by the attempt to improve it.

We nonverbally say that we do not want to be where we are by not walking slowly.

Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.

Photography created, and then social media aggravated, the vast majority of people’s inability to enjoy what is happening … without the urge to capture it.

To want is to suffer.

You, being nothing but awareness, are the stage—the only stage—on which, not to whom, life is happening.