Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.