Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

According to Buddhism, each person is a Buddha who has forgotten their original nature. If we in the pampered West, having grown up with so many advantages, could not claim our own health and our agency, preferring to see ourselves as helpless victims, then who would do it? Who would take responsibility for the world?

If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.

Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means.

We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void.

I think what we're going to ultimately recognize is that capitalism was a transitional and immature system. It got the planet to be globalized and now something else has to emerge. We have to be the ones. We can't wait around. Nobody else is going to do it for us. We have to be the ones who create that new emerging system.

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.