Because our minds are problem-solving machines, we are inclined to focus on the undesirable, usually at the expense of the desirable.

The problem with preparing for the worst is that that has the power to attract the worst.

It takes selfishness to do something intentionally.

The worst thing about life is that, after the extremely rare nondual awakening, mere pleasure is the best thing that you can get out of it.

Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.

The person you are mad at for being late could be late.

A push-up bra makes it possible for a woman to show off great breasts … she does not have.

Our emptiness greatly exaggerates the pleasure of an orgasm, and that of being high or tipsy.

We sometimes run for our life to our death.