A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time