Failure and humiliation force us to look where we never would otherwise—inward.

Really, there isn’t a difference in seeking happiness and status from material possessions and experiences.

You need to either brainwash yourself or let a for-profit billion-dollar self-interested corporation do it for you.

I’m not feeling happy, what I’m really suffering from is not unhappiness, but a too-strict criteria of what good feelings feel like.

The preferred state of the brain -- its comfort zone -- is a state of worry, anxiety and discontent. It’s possible to make that zone our comfort zone as well.

Social media undermines our attempts to believe in our own life-enhancing illusions.

There are two things that we humans can do for each other: to amuse and be amused.

Coming to accept that thoughts were meaningless was an incredible relief.

Everybody knows that all you need to do is brace the tree when it’s younger and it will grow straight.

Only interpretations can affect you.

The goal of following the suffering isn’t necessarily to make our beliefs more accurate; it’s to make them more functional.

There are three parts of me that I’m aware of. There’s Me-the-creature, Me-the-self and Me-the-awareness.

The “unknowable-ness” of God is a feature, not a bug.

For commuters the map was geographically accurate, but was not so useful.