Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said." Love is the only rational act.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.