Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.

When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.

One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there!

We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.

People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown.

You might as well be perfect. There is really not all that much else to do here that is exciting.