The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?