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.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

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

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.